Can 2 + 2 = 3, at the same time 2 + 2 = 5? According the Orwellian Doublethink, it can and must. This doublethink is the fundamental argument of transgenderism.
On one hand, we are told that transgendered individuals, i.e. those who think they are something other than what they are biologically, are “born that way” and are thus protected by the same laws, and for the same reason, that persons are protected based on their race, biological sex, and purportedly their sexual preferences. Thus, 2 + 2 = 3.
On the other hand, we are told that “gender” is a “social construct” that has nothing to do with one’s biological sex. Thus, “cis-gendered” individuals, i.e. those who think they are what they actually are, are declared to be suffering from cis-normative oppression, and are encouraged to abolish that notion of gender… particularly if they are little boys who act like little boys. Thus, 2 + 2 =5.

Anyone who questions this Doublethink is condemned as a monster in the most negative manichean terms possible.
Question for the Leftists who support sex-reassignment surgery: If they are “born that way” (which is the basis for their “protected class” status), then why should that be changed? Further, why should someone else be forced to pay for that?
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