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 Fighting Tansgender Straw Men

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Just how dumb can some people be?  Apparently, pretty dumb.  When this whole bathroom/transgender thing first became a phenomenon, there was a meme that showed a picture of a 220 LB. biker with a beard and mustache, muscular, tattoo covered arms, sitting on a Harley, looking badass and menacing.  The meme said that prior to the transgender bathroom bill, he’d have to go to the ladies room. Because…..”HE WAS BORN A LADY”! 

“Dang!”  You got me with that one. 

Now I’m convinced that this bathroom bill was needed….."Not!" 

Of course, this meme was complete horsesh*t.  But that stopped few people from passing it on as a meaningful argument, even if it was completely untrue.  

The reality was this, no one, but no one, would have said zip if this guy walked into the men’s bathroom.  No one would have asked for a birth certificate, just in case he wasn’t who he/she said they were.  It simply would have never come up….ever…..never….not even once.  Only after the law was passed, did the question of his gender come into play, and only if he walked into the ladies room.  Which, if we’re being honest, would have been a real jerk thing to do.  

Nowadays, however, asking people to acquiesce to societal norms, is more than a small handful of well-funded radicals can take.  After all, who’s to say what’s normal and what’ not? As though, no one knows.  Suddenly, after thousands of years near-universal social norms, as regards sexuality, no one appears to know what the term “Normal” means.

So, let me lay it out; it simply represents a number, a statistical average, that’s what “Normal” means.  In other words, most fish swim, birds fly, bugs crawl, dogs bark, cat’s meow, etc., etc., etc.…  When members of these species deviate from these behaviors, we call that an exception to the rule.  The rule being the overwhelming pattern of normative behavior for that species.  So, if some birds don’t fly, we don’t shoot them for being freaks.  We say that they deviate from the norm.  This is not a moral statement.  It is purely a mathematical one.

This is a very simplified argument, mind you, but it is basically true.  Different, doesn’t mean bad.  A person with something other than 20/20 vision isn’t evil, and neither is a transgender person.  Or a gay person.  Having said that, neither are they normal.

​Given time, people generally work out their differences, and they do so with relatively little government interference.  Contrary to popular myth, the government didn’t act on racial issues until long after populist movements won the day.  And, only after it became politically expedient to do so. There are exceptions, of course.  They, however, only prove the rule. 

As Stan “The Man” Lee used to say “Nuff said.”

​Mark Magula