Inside the Transgender Empire

Hillsdale ^ | SEPTEMBER 2023 | Christopher Rufo

[aquila48]

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.

[aquila48]

This captures their insanity. They hate nature and reality and they state their goals in no uncertain terms.

"And this monster (himself and all the LGBTQRSTUV), 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."

[Telepathic Intruder]

The natural order of things was created by God, and they are in rebellion against it. So they fill themselves with artificial drugs and hormones and pretend that this is who they are.

[imabadboy99]

we’re going to need more millstones

[FlyingEagle]

Let’s face it. This is Satan.

Satan is destroying children and robbing men and women of their God-given health and sexuality.

The by-product is the destruction of Morality and civilization.

Transgender is an existential crisis for this world.

Satan will destroy us with it if possible.

[lee martell]

What do I wish for?
Seven days and seven nights without hearing about Trans or Non Binary or Dead Naming or Special Gender Rights, not even one time. I should not need to take myself off the communication grid to have this happen!

[Boardwalk]

Satan loves weird things the more perverse the better so Trans is right up his alley.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[LegendHasIt]

The Transgender Empire: Is ruled by unattractive men who turn themselves into ugly 'women" and unattractive women turn themselves into grotesque 'men', then demand admiration, approbation and obeisance to their delusions and ugliness.

Here is Susan Stryker

[x]

Moderately big seller in the Seventies.

Published by the Unitarians (Beacon Press). They wouldn't touch anything like that today.

[Organic Panic]

Only colleges can create such insane stupidity and chaos.

[SamAdams76]

I have yet to see a man successfully pass himself off as a woman. He usually ends up looking like Robert Plant in a dress. Or worse.

Usually worse.

[LegendHasIt]

Well, here are the other stars of this article:

Judith Butler:

Gayle Rubin:

Sandy Stone:

To be fair, I have seen images of a few trannies in 'the entertainment business' that are quite attractive, at least from a distance, and maybe with some good photoshop.... But all the ones that go into Academia / Politics are universally grotesque.

[Chode]

fdrq delenda est...

[lee martell]

Gayle Rubin: Which way is Up?

[Wdempsey]

Oh for the good old days when aberrant sex was illegal.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Psalm 2:2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

[waterhill]

Why Robert Plant?

I have a cool story about Robert Plant.

[OriginalChristian]

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[SamAdams76]

Robert Plant is cool. But my reason for bringing him up is he always had long hair and often dressed in a feminine way while active in the Led Zeppelin band, but nobody ever mistook him for a woman. He always had a macho swagger. Nor did he try to be a woman, he was confident enough to be who he was (a lot of rock stars from that era as well).

So when I say these wanna be women look like Robert Plant in a dress, my point is not to insult Robert Plant but to reinforce with these trannies that it ain't working.