Lauren Smith: Caitlyn Jenner Is Right: "Transwomen" Are Not Women

Imagine traveling back to the dim past of the 20th century and telling people that this would be one of the great controversies of 21st-century America: can men be women?

   Jenner seems like a straight shooter.

   I'll just say for the thousandth time: I am astonished how easy it has been to convince about 1/3 of Americans to believe the rough equivalent of black is white and down is up.

   Good on Jenner for being willing to say that the sky is blue...but I am under the impression that this is not a particularly unusual view about those who consider themselves "trans." Today's Official Holy Dogma of the left--"transwomen are women"--is just one view of the matter, and not a view held by all who consider themselves to be in that group, even. Though, of course, that some people who consider themselves transgendered are willing to speak the truth also doesn't matter much. It's an obvious truth that anyone unblinded by progressive hysteria can see. Say it. Don't say it. Still true.

   I will say that my view of human rationality is more pessimistic than it's ever been before, however.