Judge Demands That Lawyers Cannot Refer to Males as Males

One of the original lines about transgenderism was that it was a purely semantic thesis--it was merely a thesis to the effect that 'man' and 'boy' sometimes referred to females, and 'woman' and 'girl' sometimes referred to males. That's utterly ridiculous and demonstrably false--it's a linguistic thesis that can be checked against the historical record. But at any rate, progressivism is, of course not satisfied with that thesis--such theses are never actually merely semantic. They're a way to get people to say false things as if they were true. Once that's been accomplished, they can be pressured to accept the consequences of the original falsehoods. So, whereas, previously, one could at least state the thesis--e.g.: some women are male--soon enough we were told that we weren't allowed to say those things either. 

   This dipshit of a judge has demanded that the lawyers in the Connecticut girls' track case not even say that the boys who are competing as girls are male. He wants them to refer to the boys as "transgender females." Which doesn't even make any sense given the way the nonsensical thesis was first sprung on us--we were, as you may recall, told that 'man,' 'woman,' 'boy,' and 'girl' were "gender" terms, not sex terms. Again, that's false--but the point is now that the theory is metastasizing. Now we're, in effect, being told that we have to make adjustments all down the line. Some males are women...but...women are all female...so those males are female! This is the sort of nonsense that leads people to say that there are "feminine penises"...after all, if Smith is a woman, then Smith must be female. But Smith has a penis...so some females have penises! The next demand--which I called years ago--will be that we deny that they're penises. After all, no females have penises...so that thing dangling between Smith's legs must be a...what? Tubular, external vagina? Consistency requires that, once one plain fact is denied, others follow. Oh, what a tangled web we weave... I mean, this is all about lying. So it's not even merely an analogy...

   The more I reflect on how easily half of America was cowed into accepting and asserting obvious falsehoods, the more I think that America is over. We just don't seem to be the country I grew up in anymore. We seem to have become some combination of delusional and cowardly. Americans, way back in the day, would have been unwilling to shame themselves in their own eyes by publicly mouthing falsehoods that they and everybody else knew--could see!--were false. Though, of course, it's really only progressives that have knuckled under. So I guess our hope lies with conservatism. Which...is something I never thought I'd see myself write...