Mister Moleman and his Friends

You think there are only two genders?  Think again!

The following was inspired by seeing a brave young man wearing a T-shirt with the bold declaration: “THERE ARE ONLY 2 GENDERS!”

I admired the gumption displayed by the young man, but it made me wonder.  What happened to the other gender? And why are we even talking about gender, when what we mean is sex?

I understand the T-shirt’s point, trying to correct the loonies who loudly insist that sex is a continuum, a spectrum, with an infinite number of locations and identifications.  

But Gender?  How did that get mixed in?

FACT CHECK #1:  There are three genders, not two.  If you can find an English grammar book (or even a dictionary) from the twentieth century, you will discover that gender is defined as “the classification by which nouns and pronouns (and often accompanying modifiers) are grouped and inflected…”

In English, the three genders are Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter.  He, she, and it. Three. Not two. And not infinity.  This is also the case in virtually all European languages. All nouns are gendered in French, without any reference to sex; thus, knife (le couteau) is masculine and fork (la fourchette) is feminine.

FACT CHECK #2:  There are only two sexes.  This fact is biological.  Since time immemorial, sex has been verified by visual inspection of reproductive anatomy. But in the late twentieth century, scientists unlocked  the cellular-level secret of DNA, and the role that X and Y chromosomes play in sexual differentiation. 

The Transgender movement which has taken over the Western left, has proclaimed its boutique rebellion by re-defining both sex and gender, de-coupling them from their long-term realities.  Both words now portray imaginary, that is mental, conditions.  A man (or boy) feels that he would be happier as a girl; so, he announces that he is one. Later, he (or his parents) decides to transform him into an imitation of a woman, by puberty blocking hormones at first, then by mutilating surgery, amputation of his genital, breast implants, “vocal-cord feminization”, etc.

If the Trump presidency accomplishes nothing more than the de-legitimization of the transgender movement, if it only forces society to recognize it as a mental condition which cannot be treated with surgery or group pretense, and especially if it criminalizes the mutilation of confused children, then America will be a better place for it.