By Larry Craig

What does the word transgender even mean?

Part of the problem is that someone, somewhere decided to give separate meanings to the words gender and sex, and society accepted it.

But what is gender apart from sex?

Gradually we are being trained to refer to a person as a man or a woman entirely on a person’s self-identification apart from the objective markings that have defined them throughout all of human history.

So now we often refer to a man as a woman and a woman as a man apart from their biology, yet it is biology that defined them in the first place.

What is a woman, and how is she different from a man?

A woman has a womb. A woman is able to create living beings in that womb. The survival of the human race depends on women creating living beings in their womb. When the average woman in a society bears less than 2.1 living beings in her lifetime, the society shrinks. There are fewer people in it, and the average age increases, which gives that society fewer productive people and more people dependent on others for their care.

A man has the ability to get that life started in the woman’s womb. A woman cannot do that on her own, and a man cannot create life on his own. The world needs the two to join together in the process.

It can be argued today that science can make the need for human interaction here unnecessary, but that also removes the human emotional involvement in the life of the child, as if that were not important. Personally, I don’t think it would be wise to do a longitudinal study on that, because if it were proven to be detrimental to the life of that child, we will have inflicted damage on thousands of children just to prove or disprove our theories.

We have gone so far as to think of sex as having been assigned to us at birth, like maybe the doctor preferred one over the other, or they drew straws in deciding what sex to call the children.

If a person thinks they are of the other sex and they want to live like that and even undergo physical changes through surgery, why is that even any of my business?

It’s not.

Except for one thing.

Our schools and our society insist that we teach this to our children and demand that they make their choices NOW.

We recognize a distinction between children and adults, where adults can assume full responsibility for their actions, and children need the consent of an adult or guardian to do certain things and other things they are strictly forbidden from doing until they reach adulthood, because we deem them not mature or knowledgeable enough to make wise or informed decisions.

But now, we are telling our children that the biology they were born with means as little as the clothes they wear as to who they really are inside. They can really become one of those other humans who we detect are different from us, and we are now encouraging these children to undergo life-changing medical procedures that alter their outward appearances yet cannot change what they are inside.

The most egregious example of this is an enormous number of young girls who believe that they are boys, whatever that may mean. Or that they can become boys if they take the right medicines and have the right surgeries. And the medical community has been coerced into accommodating their wishes. It routinely gives hormone treatments and does surgeries even without the children’s parents’ knowledge or consent. I understand that there is a push such that if parents object to this, they may be deemed abusive parents and lose custody of their children.

So young girls, long before they have ever thought of having children or getting married, are pushed into making permanent decisions about the rest of their lives. Some will argue that the effects of the medicines are not permanent. Surgeries certainly are. And I understand that puberty blockers and then later hormone injections do have permanent ill effects.

These girls will never play on the boys’ sports team, nor will they ever become comfortable changing in a boys’ locker room. They will never create life in another woman’s womb, though they will still have that ability in their own, but they have made it as difficult as possible. So what exactly do they think they are becoming, and what are we telling them that they can become?

This is all absurd, wrong, and nothing other than child abuse.

Please visit my blog at poligion1.blogspot.com for articles I have written on politics, culture, and public life.