
The Increasingly
Queer Face of Ideology in America

I
had recently been watching Congressional
Hearings concerning the promotion
of ideological transgenderism within public schools and other public
venues. I soon came to understand that the contention was not between
conflicting arguments — each based on reason and both prepared to be
defended on rational grounds — but a contention between reason
and ideology.
Given the consistent and adamant refusal of those promoting transgender
ideology to engage in rational discourse — that is to say, their
unwillingness or inability to provide both logically and biologically
consistent reasons for adopting their agendum. And reasons, we
must be clear, are not to be conflated with mere statements
that such and such “is simply the case” despite the absence of reasons
for it necessarily being so. The inability to adduce rational explanations
to substantiate their arguments merely results in radically subjective
statements of the following sort: “I simply choose to believe
this and on these grounds I am prepared to legislate it for everyone
else.”
Still not agreed? Perhaps I can take another tack: the transgenderist
makes no pretense to arguing along rational lines, that is, from premises
to conclusions defensible from those premises: instead, he dispenses
with premises altogether and immediately moves to a spurious
facsimile of a conclusion, one that is not the product of reason
— but of will: “I will (choose, desire) that it
be so, and no amount of sound reasoning can make it otherwise!”
It is not a matter
of providing logical reasons that it should be so: I myself am the
reason that it should be so! In the end, it quickly became clear
that it was not a matter of competing reasons at all, but a matter
of reason
vis-à-vis the intransigence of the will. It was my introduction
to the Theater of the Absurd as I listened to judicial nominees unable
(really, only unwilling) to understand the first question that arises
in delivery rooms around the world and from time immemorial: “Is it
a boy or a girl?”
In Compos Mentis? I think not
People claiming to be of a sound
mind routinely maintain that, within any given sampling of the population,
they are unable to identify the male gender as distinct from the female
gender, insisting that such descriptors are arbitrary social assignments
with no credible basis in science or biology — despite the overwhelmingly
apparent presence of biological features in the way of anatomy. Nor
will they acknowledge empirical and long-established data more fundamental
still in the identification and classification of the human species
itself in terms of unalterable chromosomes, particularly DNA.
So exhaustive is this structure that
a mature individual has
a complete set of paired chromosomes within every single cell in
his body. It is understood — and not just widely accepted,
but universally acknowledged — that males have 1 X and 1 Y chromosome,
while females have 2 X chromosomes, and this structure cannot be eradicated
or altered, still less can it be “socially” assigned or designated.
Prevailing notions of “correctitude” in social discourse can never attain
to the realities from which they abstain. Mere statements do
not result in biological realities. And statements that conflict
with biological realities can only be understood in an altogether spurious
language more consistent with an ideology than a reality.
It is not just puzzling when someone says, in effect, “It is
beyond my cognitive capacity to make a distinction between a man and
a woman: I am epistemologically incapable of distinguishing between
the two.” Such a statement is so patently bizarre that we immediately
identify it, not as a statement sustainable by reason, but merely as
an ideological assertion — and even those inclined to
tolerate this abuse of language and reason are very well aware of this
pretense!
If one can give credence to this ideological incapacity, then
one must equally give credence to the claim that language itself
is incapable of delivering any meaningful descriptive utterances
— that is to say, anything descriptive of a presumed reality. This is
further to say that there is no longer any correspondence between language
as descriptive and reality as objective. And who will argue this? Only
those who live in the protean world of ideology uncoupled from reality.
In this world there are no men and no women, only fictions of each;
fictions, moreover, that are ideologically fluid and unable to find
any objective context in an inherently disordered and chaotic world
of their making.
Sad to say, this is not the last, but only the latest chapter in the
annals of insanity gripping America, and almost exclusively promoted
by the elitist Liberal Left from their usual haunts in the media and
academia. And it is particularly pernicious in that it purposes to abolish
language as descriptive of reality, and reason as the custodian of both.
In the end,
reality
ideologically understood as subjective is no reality at all.
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
September 29, 2023
St. Michael the Archangel
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to the Holy See in Rome
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opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse 3.8)
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