The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of “gender-affirming care.” The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: where did it come from, and how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know.
"In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of “heteronormativity”—i.e., the white, male, heterosexual power structure. This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled.
"Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transgender professor currently at the University of Arizona, revealed the general thrust and tone of transgender ideology in his Kessler Award Lecture at the City University of New York in 2008, describing his work as “a secular sermon that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and refigurative genderqueer or transgender power as a spiritual resource for social and environmental transformation.” In Stryker’s best-known essay, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” he contends that the “transsexual body” is a “technological construction” that represents a war against Western society. “I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster,” Stryker writes. And this monster, he continues, is destined to channel its “rage and revenge” against the “naturalized heterosexual order”; against “‘traditional family values’”; and against the “hegemonic oppression” of nature itself.
"It is clear from this and from other transgender scholarship that the transgender movement is inherently political. Its reconstruction of personal identity is meant to advance a collective political reconstruction or transformation. Some trans activists even view their movement as the future of Marxism. In a collection of essays titled Transgender Marxism, activist writer Rosa Lee argues that trans people can serve as the new vanguard of the proletariat, promising to abolish heteronormativity in the same way that orthodox Marxism promised to abolish capitalism.
“In a different era,” Lee writes,
"Marxists spoke of the construction of a “new socialist man” as a crucial task in the broader process of socialist construction. Today, in a time of both rising fascism and an emergent socialist movement, our challenge is transsexualising our Marxism. We should think [of] the project of transition to communism in our time—communisation—as including the transition to new communist selves, new ways of being and relating to one another."
"This is the great project of the transgender movement: to abolish the distinctions of man and woman, to transcend the limitations established by God and nature, and to connect the personal struggle of trans individuals to the political struggle to transform society in a radical way."
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@josephw saidPeople do bad things to weak people. In all countries with predominantly Christian communities, this disease is taking hold and damaging children and family life. In all non-Christian communities, transgernder people have to conduct their affairs in secret where it belongs. It was Andrew Tate who said recently Christianity is a joke, and is weak. They are not firm and do not stand their moral ground. They are people pleasers. The bible says come out from among them, but Christians are mostly joining them.
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on ...[text shortened]... ransform society in a radical way."
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@josephw saidInteresting food for thought.
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on ...[text shortened]... ransform society in a radical way."
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What are the strongest [or least weak] arguments you have come across that put the opposing case to the one laid out in your OP?
@josephw saidIs the Spirituality Forum the best place for propaganda on this scale?
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on ...[text shortened]... ransform society in a radical way."
Christopher F. Rufo
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@josephw saidTake it to the “We are Republicans and proud it” forum, spanky.
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on ...[text shortened]... ransform society in a radical way."
Christopher F. Rufo
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@divegeester saidTell yourself what to do Twinkie.
Take it to the “We are Republicans and proud it” forum, spanky.
@josephw saidThe transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere.
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on ...[text shortened]... ransform society in a radical way."
Christopher F. Rufo
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No, it's not. Transgenders make up less than 2% of the population, and at least half of those are sexually straight teenagers and 20 somethings who are simply trying to call attention to themselves. The "transgender movement" is nothing more than a trendy storm in a teacup, given semi legitimacy by media types eager for ratings and circulation. 🙄
@josephw saidThis forum isn’t the place for your right wing tub thumping @SecondSon
Tell yourself what to do Twinkie.
@mchill said"Semi-legitimacy"?
The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere.
No, it's not. Transgenders make up less than 2% of the population, and at least half of those are sexually straight teenagers and 20 somethings who are simply trying to call attention to themselves. The "transgender movement" is nothing more than a trendy storm in a teacup, given semi legitimacy by media types eager for ratings and circulation. 🙄
Is this another vote for "they're just making it up"?
There but for the grace of God go you or I. "These people" could have been any of us. There is a non-zero percent chance that anyone born today could be affected by the very same gender dysphoria that they suffer from. But it's such a small percent that you can, without self-recrimination, align yourself against them. So much for "loving your neighbor". Where is the slightest Christian concern for what they go through on a daily basis?
No, it's way easier to claim "they're just making it up".
@suzianne saidI would dispute this claim by saying while it may be true in exception it's not the rule.
Gender-affirming care has saved lives.
Also, the OP could likewise be extrapolated to cover a wider 'transhuman' trend amongst progressive thinkers. For instance, the whole in vitro with egg and donor, which involved millions of babies (data from 2005), playing up the basic rights to life. This has been cautioned against doing more recently. I would note that Christian belief values all life from the procedure but obviously a hybrid of some sort, would introduce more hierarchic levels of human class beings.
@josephw saidNot a day goes by that we don't get more propaganda like this in here.
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on ...[text shortened]... ransform society in a radical way."
Christopher F. Rufo
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