International Transgender Day of ____
Oh great, because there aren’t enough trans days in the calendar yet. There should be at least 50.
Also yay for more trans visibility, because our trans siblings have been far too bashful and retiring up to now. Step up, sibs! Take a bow! Tell us about yourselves! Then tell us more!
How can they have a day of “visibility” when even a gynecologist can’t tell them from women?
How will people know they’re looking at trans “women”?
I think there just might be some kind of logical flaw here.
Easter has been cancelled. There’s a new cult in town.
The Trans Cult demands we worship Trans Ideology.
And they manage to stretch this “Day” into a whole “Weekend.” How long before it’s (yet another) “Month”?
T: I must have top VISIBILITY! You all have to know I am Trans! Trans PRIDE!! SEE ME! SEE ME! I am TRANS!!
Also T: It’s a secret that I’m Trans! It’s a Violation of my Privacy if you notice, or comment on, or ask about my Trans ness. You’re not allowed to know, or even suspect, that I’m Trans!!!
Everyone Else: Those are mutually exclusive ideas. You can only have one. Pick one.
They’re only mutually exclusive if you have inefficient compartmentalization, and an overabundance of respect for consistency and truthfulness. Now observe: If they assert that TWAW in order to access women’s resources, then we are forbidden to mention their transness. If they need to leverage their “marginalization” and “victimhood,” while helping draft anti-hate laws, we’re not allowed to forget they are trans. They’re Trans with a Capital T. At the very least, they’re expecting others to engage in the situational epistemology necessary to accommodate their need to be Schrodinger’s Trans. We’re supposed to know, at all times, exactly which mode of understanding is expected of us at any given moment, and obey accordingly. Got it? Frighteningly, I actually do, I’m just not willing to comply.
But coherence and consistency are not the point. It’s whatever trans activists find expedient at the present moment that counts. The moments before and after might call for the opposite stance, but that’s not a problem. More importantly, it’s not simply a matter of their own capacity to accept cognitive dissonance that matters, but the willingness of others (who are in positions of power and influence) to ignore this kind of contradiction, that is key to their ability to have their demands met. Without others’ willing suspension of disbelief, trans activism goes nowhere. The willingness to accept the Doublethink it takes to inhabit the Escheresque world “allyship” entails becomes a test of loyalty, as does enforcing trans demands on those who are unwilling.
I read an account by a lesbian in the UK who was assigned the job of planning a Trans Day of Remembrance in her workplace. She proposed a minute of silence for every trans person killed for transphobic violence in the UK.
The day before her boss got back to her and asked her about the plan. She said “Good news, we don’t have to do anything.”
Good one.