Is There A Bottom To The Slippery Slope?

Ideas have consequences. It’s true. History is one long series of examples to the general principle. History is also a long string of examples of people attempting to deny the same general principle. People are always trying to deny that accepting a principle doesn’t mean that you have to accept the logical consequences of that principle, but the reality is that, sooner or later, it happens.

For example, once marriage and “sex” is separated from procreation, well, everything we see going around us follows. Everyone tried to say none of what we’re seeing would follow. But it did. And this usually happens because people want life to be easy. No hard choices, no self denial.

Wisdom lies in discerning the logical consequences of a given principle and, depending on those consequences, saying: Nope. Not going there. That’s a false principle. We reject it root and branch because by the fruits we know it.

I bring this up as a result of reading Rod Dreher’s disturbing but necessary read:

Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic

Like most of Dreher’s articles it’s long. Really long. But I’ll try to give the overall gist.

It arises, I think, from Dreher noticing the growing disturbance among normal people to the Trans craze. Of course these people don’t realize that it’s part of the Transhumanist movements effort to desensitize normals to perversion—but more and more people are looking for ways to opt out of perversion. You can see it in the long waiting lists for private and religious schools. Lots of the people who put their kids on those lists may not be terribly religious themselves, but they’re look for some port in the storm.

And it’s not just normals who are disturbed. There appears to be a move to ditch the “T”—LGB, rather than LGBT. LGBs are seeing the craziness and the growing reaction and are beginning to realize, maybe we need to distance ourselves from this. Oh, by the way, did you hear the one about the dog that got Monkeypox? Go figure, right?

Anyway.

Here’s just a sample of what Dreher has on his mind …

The other day, I saw on Twitter someone saying that they are a good liberal and all that, but they are really worried about what they’re seeing regarding the emerging culture of the medical and teaching professions encouraging children to transition to the opposite sex. “But,” said this person, “I don’t want to surrender to a moral panic.”

I submit to you that a moral panic is precisely the correct response to this egregious phenomenon. That is, what is happening is so hideous, and so widespread, and the reaction by most people to this point has been so muted to non-existent, that if you are not panicking, you are not paying attention.

Most people are not on Twitter, and if you’re one of these people, you may not be aware of the extent of the insanity. ...

The things they document are not nut-picking ... Let me give you an example:

Minnesota family physician says we need to give trans children puberty blockers, HRT, and transition surgeries. She also encourages teens to seek healthcare without parents pic.twitter.com/ReOYVQd6vB

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 15, 2022

“Oh, come on,” some of you are saying. “That doctor is clearly bonkers. Who else believes that?”

So glad you asked. Major children’s hospitals, for one.

Almost all of society is unaware we have a cult in our midst cutting off organs of children and calling it ‘gender-affirming care.’

This is not limited to @BostonChildrens.

Kaiser Permanente in Oakland did a mastectomy on a 12-year-old girl, and castrates 16-year-old boys. pic.twitter.com/ln8vmHwJvB

— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) August 15, 2022

Libs of TikTok has an important essay about the Left’s attempts to sever the relationship between parents and children. This phenomenon is one of the clearest and most alarming examples of the totalitarian nature of the contemporary Leftist project. When I was researching Live Not By Lies, people who escaped Communism kept telling me that one of the characteristics of the totalitarian regimes they escaped was the State inserting itself between children and their parents. This is well known to historians, as a matter of fact. The theory was that the State is the true parent, and as such, needs to defend the rights of children against their parents, who are carriers of old, oppressive values. This was necessary to liberate children from the past, and from its evil values.

It takes a village, ya’ll! That one came quite a ways higher up the slippery slope. Who was really outraged, to the extent that they could see all this coming?

I remember first learning about this aspect of Communism many years ago, and thinking that this is one thing that would never, ever be accepted in America. People would go to the mat to defend their children, and the sacred relationship between parents and children. But now it’s here. Here’s LOTT:

Various states across America have begun implementing laws and policies to allow children to make healthcare decisions without a parent or guardian’s consent — and the medical industry is promoting it. Many of these states are using these new laws to allow for drastic medical decisions to be made without parental consent including hormone therapy, gender reassignment surgery, and medicated mental health treatment.

Lesson? Never say never. Not ever.

More:

New York has hopped on the bandwagon of removing parents from the treatment room as well. New York-Presbyterian recently sent out emails to their patients explaining that accounts for 12-17-year-olds must be updated to reflect the adolescent’s personal email address as the primary contact as New York State law allows children “to keep their sensitive medical information private and to consent to some of their own medical treatment.”

Do you get what they’re doing here? Major hospitals and liberal states are making it possible for minor children to choose to have hormone therapy and other interventions to change their sex without their parents consent, or even knowledge! If you aren’t morally panicked by this, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Does that seem scary to you? It gets much worse:

This is really scary. Dad claims doctor asked his 3-year-old if he’s a boy or a girl at a routine check-up pic.twitter.com/rwOVNJeDHU

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 14, 2022

What else happens at those routine checkups?

This next part reminded me of one of the things that Tucker Carlson said in his brilliant monologue the other night about the Trump MAL Raid. Tucker pointed out that the Leftist goons always claim to be the real victims. Oh …

Billboard Chris, Matt Walsh, and LOTT have been sending around Boston Children’s Hospital’s own promotional videos, which are predictably outraging normal people. So now the libs are accusing these three of terrorism. This is standard operating procedure for the Left today: if you think something controversial they do or promote is good, then you’re fine, and a glorious Ally™ — but if you notice it and object, then you are a bigot and a terrorist who must be shut down.

Yeah, and most of the Media will be all on board to help shut you down. Big Med and Big Pharma are totally behind this—they see nothing but $$$ signs. These are the same people who told you that their injections are “safe and effective”.

To do justice to Dreher, he’s been a voice in the wilderness for many years. And here, without getting all philosophical, he hits the nail on the head: This is all about classical liberalism and libertarianism—the enemy of normal human life.

Why did I see it coming? Because SSM built on what most Americans already believed about what marriage is (an expression of romantic affection between people, not anything rooted firmly in fixed transcendent values), and because SSM activists were appropriating the civil rights paradigm for their cause. There has so far been no possible resistance to the civil rights paradigm in American life. You could yell until you were blue in the face that race is not the same thing as sexuality, and make those arguments; nobody cared. Back then, normies often said, objecting to people like me, “What does my neighbors’ gay marriage have to do with me? How does it harm me?” You could explain to the point of exhaustion how marriage is such a fundamental part of law and culture that radically changing the norms would bring about transitions that ordinary people would not like. Nobody cared. If you said those things, you were “fearmongering,” engaging in “moral panic” and “homophobia.”

Now we are hearing some more conservative gay people objecting to how transgender activists have done with the gay rights cause. I understand their objection — they say, plausibly, that gay rights do not entail transgender rights — but I don’t feel sorry for them. They brought this onto us all. Never did anybody from that side object to the “T” squad in “LGBT”. It was sold as part of the same package, fundamentally based on the radically individualistic idea that we have a right to fulfill our sexual desires — and that society must accommodate that. Had gay rights activists made an issue of separating out the biological claims undergirding the transgender movement, and pointed out that one does not have to accept such anti-scientific ideological claptrap in order to support gay rights, we might not be at this point. But they did not. We have been told for twenty years, at least, that if you want to affirm the LGB, you must also affirm the T. Anything else is a violation of civil rights, and the sacrosanct right to self-definition. So here we are today, with minors who don’t conform to rigid gender stereotypes, and who would almost certainly grow up to be gay, being told that they must actually be the opposite sex (research shows that the overwhelming majority of dysphoric minors resolve their condition by age 20 by accepting that they are gay — then put on a regimen of chemical treatments, and even surgery, to permanently alter their bodies, and make them dependent on the pharmaceutical industry and the broader medical-industrial complex, for the rest of their lives.

Have I mentioned that I sometimes get very weary of people who think that MAGA is as easy as waving a flag, and that Russia is our enemy?

When I was reporting Live Not By Lies, I talked to a senior physician at a major US hospital in a conservative state. The man only talked to me if I agreed not to use his name. His family emigrated to the West from the USSR when he was a child. Now, he said, he is seeing things that didn’t even exist in the Soviet Union. He told me that at his hospital, the management instructed all the physicians to give to any patient, including children, any gender-transition assistance they asked for — even if it violated the physician’s best judgment about that particular patient. There was no other health care issue in which doctors were told by the hospital to suspend their medical judgment to give a patient what he or she wants. Why do you think that is, reader? When the lawsuits begin, I wonder if “just following orders” will protect doctors?

By the way, believe it or not, but there’s much,. much more at the link. Do Dreher a small favor and click on it.