This is the 21st century's version of
1984's "2+2=5"
Get people to accept a blatant demonstrable lie and persecute anyone who says otherwise.
https://www.steynonline.com/11421/t...i0AmKVJJuE84fH2s369zUOZTSuaG5N8So9Gy9wQj5NV90Tal Bachman: We Have Met the Enemy, part X
by Tal Bachman
The Bachman Beat
July 2, 2021
I'm worried about this series getting boring, so let's zip up to the exciting present for a moment to get our bearings. After all, this extended, Alzheimer's-like ramble began as one man's attempt to figure out how the hell we got here. So... let's remind ourselves: Where exactly is "here"?
A few snapshots from the past few years:
In 2015, a famous male athlete puts on a dress and make-up. He then declares himself a female. Despite the athlete not having undergone "sex assignment surgery", our cultural overlords immediately announce their agreement: the dress and make-up have indeed made the male a female. Not just a "female in spirit", but an actual female.
Time magazine then proclaims the athlete its runner-up "Woman of the Year". Glamour magazine goes all the way and proclaims him its "Woman of the Year". Social media bans anyone who dares refer to the athlete by his original male name, uses male pronouns to refer to him, or in any way affirms the immutable reality of biological sex. At the same time, politicians begin passing laws to enforce the new orthodoxy.
The message was sudden, but clear: We must believe a lie. We must speak a lie. We must make ourselves unknow that a person's biological sex is an unchangeable fact of nature. We must believe that a male who amputates his penis and testicles has thereby turned himself into a female—as opposed to just a male without a penis or testicles. We must believe that putting on a dress vaporizes, or at least renders meaningless, the sexual identity encoded within every cell of our bodies. We must believe that gender dysphoria never really existed, and that instead, a kind of spirit possession is at work. The idea is that a male or female soul—through some sort of never-explained cosmic mix-up—winds up trapped in the wrong body. What sounds like the premise of a bad '70's Disney movie is now the One True Truth.
In short, the message was, and still is, we must adopt beliefs about biological sex which, only a decade ago, mental health professionals would have deemed proof of psychosis. Now, we're supposed to remain unbothered as those same mental health professionals demand we adopt their new psychotic vision. They demand we parrot the lie they all know is a lie. Insanity is the new sanity. Falsehood is the new truth. Bullying is the new compassion. State-enforced delusion is the new science. Magic is the new physics. Fantasy is the new reality. Man is the new woman, and woman is the new man.