Liberals know that if they can control our words, then they can control our thoughts. Transgender ideologues have studied Orwell, and have done their homework so well that today few people could even tell you what a girl is.
“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
For those who’ve forgotten, a girl is “a female child from birth to adulthood.” What’s a female? “A person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus, and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman;” or more generally, “an organism of the sex or sexual phase that normally produces egg cells.”
But the facts of life are no longer obvious. Consider a letter to the editor and an op-ed, both in the March 2 Union Leader.
In his letter to the editor, “Support Trans Athletes,” Sarah Rose Huckman reports he was a “girl who happens to be transgender.” If a girl is a young human female, how did Huckman, who was born a boy, become a girl? Becoming a “transgender girl” isn’t something that “just happens.” Adults subject gender-confused children to hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones, and disfiguring surgeries to make them look like their stereotypes of the opposite sex.
Representative Mark Pearson had the courage to stand up to this madness by sponsoring HB 1251, which would prevent boys from competing against women in girls’ school sports. But in his op-ed, “Transgenderism on NH sports teams,” he walks straight into the language trap. He not only refers to boys pretending to be girls as “transgendered girls,” but also uses the phrase “transgender female.” There can be no such thing. Sex is binary. Humans are male and female, boys and girls, women and men. Barring an extremely rare sexual disorder, it’s easy to tell males and females apart.
“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself,” Dumbledore advises Harry Potter.
If we’re going to wake up from the destructive delusion of transgenderism, we need to take Dumbledore’s advice. Let’s call boys boys and girls girls, and stop using pronouns that deny objective truths. Let’s forget redundant expressions like “biological boys” and “biological girls,” and oxymorons like “transgender females.”
And let’s insist that our state legislators begin our journey back to reality by voting Ought to Pass on HB 1251 and SB 480, which would keep boys off girls school sports teams. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows,” wrote Orwell. Let that freedom be our legacy to our grandchildren.
