The New York Times (NYT) located
its newest, freshest outrage on the Trump Administration in a Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) memo that’s not new – but circulated since last
spring. Some insensitive bureaucrat
argued that federal policy on gender should be based on “a biological basis
that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” [read my blog posting of Monday, November 29
– “Here is How the Trump Administration Aims to Define Transgender”]
But, wait a minute! Don’t liberals believe policy should be
grounded in science? Of course, they do!
… but apparently not when it conflicts with their cultural dogmas on “gender
fluidity.”
The NYT headline was not just skewed; it came with a hint of holocaust:
“Trump May Limit How Government Defines One’s Sex.” The HHS memo bases gender policy on the genitalia
you’re born with. “The new definition
would essentially eradicate federal recognition of the estimated 1.4-million
Americans,” the story says. It ends with
a former Obama bureaucrat denouncing any change that would return to biology
because it “quite simply negates the humanity of people.”
The NYT was not alone. Time
magazine tweeted, “Reports that the Trump administration plans to erase the
definition of transgender spark alarm.” Leftists quickly started the Twitter hashtag “#Wont-BeErased.” A Boston
Globe tweet warned that the change could be drastic, quoting the NYT piece: “The Trump administration is
considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition
determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a government-wide
effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people.” The Daily
Beast headline was “Trump Wants to Pretend Trans People Don’t Exist. Well, We Do.”
The Daily Beast tweeted, “The
Trump administration’s potential new rule on gender would take transgender rights
even further into the Dark Ages than they already are.”
Then the celebrities on Twitter really
took the “eradication” language into absurdity. Actor Bradley Whitford (of “The West Wing” and
“Billy Madison”) tweeted: “This is obscene. This must not stand. This is, and I use this word intentionally,
what the Nazis did. Otherization,
vilification and exclusion of vulnerable minorities.” Deaf “America’s Next Top Model” winner Nyle
Di-Marco used the word “genocide.” He
tweeted: “Disgusting. Alarming. TRANS PEOPLE ARE REAL. THEIR EXISTENCE ARE NOT UP FOR DEBATE. AND this is genocide.”
All this because a memo is circulating
that suggests the federal government shouldn’t force every local school
district into a federal mandate to provide a taxpayer-funded panoply of
redefined bathroom spaces and other “protections.”
Liberals inside and outside the media
can’t seem to grasp that Obama’s transgender mandates caused alarm with
conservatives, science lovers and religious people alike … and that the
mandates were a serious reason those people marched to the polls to vote for
President Trump.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
