he Transgender Day of Remembrance, if nothing else, was a reminder that the left — and the corporate media in particular — is still completely infatuated with transgender ideology. That assertion may seem completely unrevelatory, but for peace-and-homestead-life-loving conservatives, it’s an essential reminder.
Yes, the right has made tremendous gains on the issue during the Trump Administration 2.0. The International Olympic Committee’s plan to ban male athletes in female sports — under pressure from Trump — is just one example of many. And Trump’s choice to capitalize on Kamala Harris’ pro-trans-procedures-for-illegal-immigrants-in-prison views likely played a critical role in sinking her campaign.
But none of that changes the modern left’s fundamental relationship to transgender ideology. It’s the legitimate child of the sexual revolution, the incarnation of lawless individualism, the apex antagonist of Christian teaching on ethics, sin, and human nature. In other words, it’s a doctrine, a creed, an axiom. The left’s approach to defending that axiom may fluctuate, but the loyalty is unshakeable.
Take, for example, The Washington Post editorial board’s Wednesday response to Health and Human Services releasing an updated version of its report on the treatment of gender dysphoria. Rather than take the typical radical pro-transgenderism approach, WaPo asserted that the report leaves us all stumbling in the dark when it comes to mutilating children, headlining the piece “What we still don’t know about pediatric medical transition.” The paper’s editors can’t help but call into question the study’s obvious conclusion, that “it is not ethical to subject adolescents to hormonal and surgical interventions … even in a research trial, until and unless the state of the evidence suggests a favorable risk/benefit profile for the studied intervention.”
That such a statement could at all be controversial emphasizes just how firmly trans ideology grips the editors at WaPo.
Over at CNN on Thursday, Leah Asmelash was wandering in a similar cloud of pro-trans confounded befuddlement: “The White House wants to eliminate ‘gender ideology’ and ‘trans ideology,’” she wrote. “What does that mean?” What a difficult question. She is lost, bewildered, stumped. After all, “the term ‘gender ideology’ didn’t originate in the US,” and everyone knows how hard it is to comprehend foreign ideas. (Further, Jair Bolsonaro once “decried ‘gender ideology,’” and he’s headed to prison now, so there’s that.)
“‘Transgender ideology,’ a phrase largely used in the US, is, if anything, even more amorphous,” Asmelash said. It is, indeed, a mystery wrapped in an enigma — but only for someone who works for the legacy media. Aside from the fact that her entire article questioning what transgender ideology is is itself transgender ideology, if Asmelash is confused, maybe she should take a look at her own reporting. In 2023 she raved about how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse‘s Gwen Stacy, who had a “Protect the Kids” transgender flag in her room, may have been trans.
Or she could have turned to CNN’s 19-minute read, published the same day as her piece, memorializing eight trans-identifying individuals (seven men and one woman) who died this year. It’s a study in transgender ideology and propaganda, with each of the men who said they were women presented as angelic divas in lines like these: “Tahiry Broom could show up anywhere — from a seat at a church service to a night club’s pulsing dance floor — armed with her long, painted nails, shimmery eyeshadow and colorful wigs. Then, like magic, the whole place would belong to her.” The article is titled “A ballroom legend, an ‘auntie’ and a young athlete: Here are some of the trans people lost to violence and suicide this year.”
Hellbound and Down 