"Transgendered" troops to depart.
I'll be frank, I don't think transgenderism exists at all.
Gender dysphoria, however, certainly does. It's a psychological condition, and indeed, a mental illness, often a temporary one.
Moreover, "transitioning from a man to a woman", or vice versa, is impossible.
Whether or not that fiction should be allowed to medically occur for adults (for anyone not in their majority, it's child abuse), is another thing. I basically don't feel that it should be allowed, as its a manifestation of a mental illness that isn't served by being medically and surgically coddled, but I'll also fully admit there's more than one allowable medical procedure I don't think should be legal either. Plastic surgery, for example, for mere cosmetic reason for uninjured and the morphologically normal people is also wrong, in my view, and that's not the only such thing.
Nonetheless, the sudden, and it was sudden, post Obergefell societal trend towards treating this mental delusion as something that should be fully supported is not only stunning, but it's flat out wrong. It may be the only mental illness which has rising to be not only culturally tolerated, but for which the left makes cultural demands. As I predicated at the time of the Obergefell, making such demands would have a societal ripple that would be devastating, and it has been. There's a straight path from Obergefell to Donald Trump, as what it brought in was just a bridge too far.
So, here, I find myself agreeing with Secretary Hegseth's action, even though I'm not a fan of Secretary Hegseth.
As readers here know, I don't agree with letting women serve in combat, so I'm clearly on the far edge of the right on these matters. But I don't feel that appropriate. Be that as it may, while women's cycles propose challenges to their serving as combat troops, they don't require medication just to exist in their state. The "transgendered" do. So, setting aside that what transgenderism really is, is a mental illness, it'd rapidly become a physical illness to a soldier trapped in an isolated combat environment or a prisoner or war. As stated here some time ago, I fear for women who will be POWs, as I know exactly what they're going to be subject to. For a soldier who was "transgendered", the treatment as a POW would be barbaric.
By the way, there's a transitioned high school softball picture who has been blowing the doors off of her opponents with her pitches. Well, she's genetically a guy.
This is just wrong, and shouldn't be allowed to happen.
I'll also note that I may be one of the view Wyomingites in my region to have encountered a guy pretending to be a gal and seeking medical assistance for the delusion, with that person in uniform. Some time back I had some email correspondence with a full time National Guardsman on something, although I don't recall what. What I do recall is that he was "transgendered". Like a lot, but not all, "transgendered" men affecting the appearance of a woman, he looked very much like a guy, which of course what he genetically and morphologically is.
Gender studies also out.
In something that is sort of related, and sort of not, UW is eliminating its Gender Studies degree.
I don't know much about gender studies other than its one of those host of degrees that came in during the 1970s and 1980s in the liberal arts that have always baffled me a bit. What do you do with it?
Having said that, I'm not as condescending towards the degree as I once was. I do, however, think that what US is doing makes sense. Folding the program into some other sort of sociology degree strikes me as making sense, rather than having it stand alone.
Sorority transgender pleading allowed.
In something else sort of related, and sort of not, the Federal Court has allowed for an amended complaint to be filed in a suit in which it seeks to address a man identifying as a woman being admitted to its house at UW as a sorority "sister".
Banning pornography.
And here's another item that come from the far right, and indeed from Project 2025, which generally scares me overall, but whose goal I find myself in agreement with:
I've posted on the topic of pornography here from time to time.
Pornography is a devastating scourge. It's wholly destructive, and about that there's no doubt
This bill will be interesting to watch. I suspect it will get no traction I don't know, for one thing, that Donald Trump cares one whit about pornography. After all, his wife became famous as a model for posing in a manner that I'd regard as pornographic. And a guy who rode the Lolita Express to Epstein's jail bait fantasy island doesn't strike me as a man of deep moral principles. And hte pron industry is powerful and will take this on in the guise of free speech.
It may ironically prove to be the case that deporting people to foreign concentration camps is something most Americans are willing to tolerate, but stopping young women from prostituting their images is not.
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