The Woke Soul: Trans Trampled

The Trans Movement is not a movement for civil rights. It is a hotbed of misogyny and homophobia. Intersectionality subverts the rights women and homosexuals to the greater oppression of the trans.

The American Spirit Essays #22

(continued from Woke Soulcraft)

(This essay is adapted from my July 2022 article in Human Events)

Misogyny and Homophobia

In contemplating the metaphysical nature of the Trans Movement, it’s important to appreciate how and why metaphysics are more important than mundane arguments about rights and equality.  It’s hard to miss the two most glaring casualties that the Trans Movement has trampled: gay rights and women’s rights. 

Far from being an outgrowth of the rights-based movements seeking equality for women or homosexuals, today’s Trans Movement runs roughshod over those groups. In the Woke hierarchy of intersectional oppression, “ciswomen” (i.e., heterosexual genetic females) and homosexuals are less oppressed than transes. Like all lesser oppressed groups, they must subordinate their own claims and rights to the needs of those suffering greater oppression. Anyone advocating different priorities is, by definition, an oppressor—and thus an enemy of the Woke. As a result—and notwithstanding its insistence to the contrary—the Trans Movement has become a hotbed of misogyny and homophobia.

The debilitating effects of inserting transwomen—always with male genetics, usually with male musculature, and sometimes with male genitalia—into women’s sports and previously women-only safe spaces has been reported widely. The consequences of these incursions have been precisely as any advocate for women’s welfare would have predicted: Sexual assaults in high schools, rapes in women’s prisons, discomfort in women’s shelters, and male dominance of women’s sports are among the most obvious.

Women who note these problems—including more than a few feminists with previously-impeccable Woke credentials—are immediately deemed TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists); J.K. Rowling is perhaps the most prominent example. Wokeism casts all TERFs out of the faith, dooming them to wander in the wilderness rubbing shoulders with deplorables, conservatives, traditionalists, and other undesirables. The Woke treatment of TERFs—many of whom advocate strongly for education and public accommodation policies designed to ease life and acceptance for transes—is perhaps the clearest demonstration that today’s Trans Movement is not a rights movement.

On the homophobic front, a small but growing number of gay Americans are beginning to awaken to what has happened to their own hugely successful rights movement—and worse, to their reputation. Some are coming to recognize the rush to transition children and teens upon the earliest deviation from stereotypical gender roles as a form of gay conversion therapy: Rather than allowing these children to mature into healthy bodies as gay (or straight) adults, the Trans Movement advocates mutilating their bodies and overriding their hormones.