Julia Malott is a thoughtful, well educated transgender woman who has not allowed her identity as such to poison her vision of reality. She is in fact a wonderful example of the Mind’s ability to transcend the sort of circumstances which the neuroscientists cited in my last blog claim to be Deterministic. Her Sept. 23 article in Canada’s National Post gives evidence to the fact that so much of what is reviled as right wing “hate speech” by the contemporary Left, is actually a product of its own compulsion to see hatred and oppression even where none exists or is intended.
On Wed., Sept 20, over 70 protests were staged across Canada by parents outraged with the radical Gender Ideology that has come to be part of educational curricula from coast to coast. Their chief issues would seem to have been that much of what is being promoted as Fact, is no such thing, and, more egregiously, that it is being imposed on children far too young to comprehend its repercussions. Beyond each of these complaints, of course, is the fundamental belief that their children are their responsibility and not the wards of the State!
On the day in question, Julia addressed those protesting the decisions of the Durham District School Board in Whitby, Ontario. Her message, she says, was “clear and simple,” and is self-evident in the title of her article which reads: Hardly Hateful: Trans Rights and Parental Rights Can Coexist.
Having assured the crowd before her “that Canadian democracy harbors room for both the principles of parental autonomy and the rights of transgender individuals,” she was greeted with warm applause from her audience, many of whom subsequently hugged her and expressed their agreement with each of her concerns. Her status as a Trans Woman, she says, garnered no signs of hatred whatsoever from those whose focus seemed to be the Ideological as opposed to Factual nature of what was being taught their children, as well as the age at which they were being so indoctrinated.
And yet, Malott laments, the media exploded with accusations that full-blown Trans Hatred was clearly the motivation behind the day’s “Million March for Children.” Given her experiences, she was appalled that even the Mayor of Whitby, Elizabeth Roy, joined in the chorus of opprobrium. Her criticism of Roy’s comments says much about the “character” of the contemporary Left: “Rather tellingly, her narrative describes the hate only in the most general and non-specific terms possible, devoid of a single example of the purported hate that transpired.”
Such is the modus operandi of many on the “woke” Left, including, sadly, those occupying positions of power in government, on school boards, in the media, etc., etc.. Of course there are homophobic idiots intolerant of anyone who is not heterosexual. But a good deal of criticism of the LGBTQ agenda has nothing to do with hatred and is perfectly rational. That Julia Malott, a transgender woman, is more than willing to admit as much, is a tribute both to her level of integrity and to the capacity of Mind to transcend the irrational blandishments of Identity. Absurdly, many of those who consider themselves progressive, are incapable of such transcendence. Hence a Culture perfectly comfortable with generalizations such as the following: Western Culture is “systemically” racist; Masculinity is inherently toxic; Heterosexuality is just a biased “social construct,” etc., etc.. Such is the sophisticated level of discourse that has come to dominate our Civilization, a civilization which, from a rational “conservative” perspective, is perfectly willing to commit cultural suicide out of deference to the mindless value of Inclusiveness.