Views from the Abyss #46: 'Transgender Advocacy' and 'Why Trump Won'

Q. I thought that Trump was pro LGBTP? Didn’t he say that Bruce Jenner could use any bathroom at the White House that he wanted?

A. He did indeed, but I think he went a little further even than that.

Trump, according to his public image, is pro-American, and that includes its LGBTP citizens. He also demonstrated perfectly that age old right-wing virtue of ‘tolerance of the inconsequential’. To the extent that something doesn’t affect him (or anyone else) directly, he’ll happily turn a blind eye, regardless of his own personal thoughts and feelings on the topic.

But that is where transgender advocacy has encapsulated the cause of the significant blowback that has been taking place over the past year—and will no doubt continue for the foreseeable future—the blowback itself encapsulated by the expression ‘Why Trump Won’.

For some years now, policies and social attitudes have been changing—arguably for the worse—at such an alarming rate that satire is struggling to keep up. Many have found these changes to be a reflection of an encroaching insanity, but to the extent that it was possible to do so, they turned a blind eye to it. Live and let live, so to speak.

But advocates of the transgender movement, as with so many other identity movements, made a fundamental error in judgement—they overstepped an important boundary by a very wide margin.

You see, if a man decides/feels otherwise compelled to wear a dress and call himself a woman, and vice versa, then that is their business. If they want to be known by a different name, then that is between them and the people they interact with. This can be tolerated.

But when they begin demanding that everybody in the whole world—the vast majority of whom they will never even know exist—start referring to them by their own choice of gendered or ambiguous pronouns, in private, and try to enact laws to enforce this, well then we have a problem. By requiring each and every one of us to either voluntarily and privately validate something we may believe to be an untruth, or risk becoming a pariah, these narcissistic lunatics have unwittingly denied us our fundamental right to mind our own damned business. The tolerance stops here.

They brought the fight to us, so now we’re going to fuck them up.

And that, as they say, is ‘Why Trump Won’.