Sex is the battering ram progressives use to achieve the destruction of Western culture. The latest front in the culture wars, the movement to normalise transgender "rights", is decisive. Transgenderism attacks not only the foundation of Western society but also the order of creation itself. If progressives get their way on this the doors are opened wide to anything they desire, and from the ensuing chaos they see themselves remaking humanity in their own image.
The transgender movement’s science-rejecting demands vary between the risible and the tyrannical. We are accustomed to seeing videos of fat bearded blokes in dresses screaming hysterically at someone who has "misgendered" them. Reactions vary from laughter at the incongruity of it all to pity for those in evident need of mental health intervention.
To dismiss transgender activists as bizarre attention-seekers is to underestimate them: they are the extreme end of a continuum whose existence threatens all of society. We are under psychological assault which is intended to reshape our thinking so that our understanding of human existence is fundamentally altered.
To dismiss transgender activists as bizarre attention-seekers is to underestimate them: they are the extreme end of a continuum whose existence threatens all of society. We are under psychological assault which is intended to reshape our thinking so that our understanding of human existence is fundamentally altered.
Attack on women
Women often become victims of progressive ideology. Progressives recruit women and also attack them. There are too many AWFL (Annoying White Female Leftist) women to count. At the same time, despite the progressives’ honeyed words, women are thrown aside when it comes to furthering ultimate progressive aims. Chief amongst the transgender movement’s immediate victims are women, who are denied safe spaces, refuges, and female-only sporting activities. More importantly, women are denied the importance of their sexual identity: if any man can become a woman, the distinct category of ‘woman’ disappears.
Progressives … see themselves remaking humanity in their own image.
The phenomenon of media personalities sharing their ill-thought insights on the state of Western civilisation is all too common. Billy Bragg, a singer and the worst kind of activist the cultural Left has to offer, has questioned if women should be allowed independent speech. "Do women get a free pass to say whatever they want when discussing their rights? Would you oppose an anti-abortionist woman if she came to your town to argue that women should have fewer rights?" he asked on Twitter on March 3rd. According to Bragg, women should be permitted to speak only when they say what he authorises them to say. This level of misogynistic left-wing authoritarianism is Victorian in its contempt. He might as well have tweeted "Know your place, woman."
We should not be surprised. Far from upholding the status of women, the Left have habitually shown disdain for them except as a tool to be used in their struggle to alter our understanding of society. Who can forget Stokely Carmichael, originator of the ‘Black Power’ slogan, who when asked the position of women in the movement gave the succinct reply, "Horizontal".
Harbinger of Chaos
Recently Bragg revealed the vital importance of the transgender movement as the vanguard of the progressive agenda. He retweeted, "If trans falls, that means queer theory falls. If queer theory falls, then critical race theory falls. And if critical race theory falls, then all critical theory falls. They are all set up in a row. All it takes is the force of about 65+ per cent of a population finally fed up enough." This makes it clear why Bragg said, "It is imperative that we defend the rights of trans and non-binary people.’ The rights of women are of minor importance.
That trans rights are vital to the progressive Left is clear. The other fronts in the culture wars such as LGB rights, important as they are to progressives, concern behaviour. Transgender rights involve how we are created. We see from Genesis 1:27 that the most fundamental human category is that of our sex: when God created us, he made us man and woman, distinguishable sexes. If progressives can destroy this most basic God-created distinction, they destroy the primal structure of a Western society built on biblical principles.
This is why even the most gullible progressive foot soldiers, although they can recognise the sinister degeneracy of singer Sam Smith cavorting as a pretend woman, are prepared to support him; they cannot afford to lose this battle. Progressives never question why it is so important to celebrate adult men dressed as women sexualising young children in Drag Queen Story Hour.
Establishment Sponsored
In their assault on society, progressive activists are not confined to what we once called the Loony Left. Today they are ably assisted by the establishment: politicians, churches and businesses. Dentons is the world’s largest law firm by number of lawyers employed. In 2019, in conjunction with LGBT advocacy groups, they wrote a report pushing for the elimination of sexual differences between young people. It sought to provide "a user-friendly overview of best practices for legal gender recognition for people under 18 based on self-determination". (The Scottish government, noted for their lack of intellectual ability, had to get their ideas from somewhere.)
If the public became fully aware of the darkness at the heart of this issue they would reject it utterly.
In what amounted to a lobbying handbook, Dentons argued that children before "the age of maturity" are discriminated against if they cannot legally change their gender without interference. "Children and teenagers need to be allowed to define themselves however it suits them’; this is ‘a human right they should be afforded". If parents object to their children changing gender, "states should take action against the parents who are obstructing the free development of a young trans person’s identity".
Wisely, Dentons advised that plans should be hidden behind a "veil" to make sure that neither the media nor the wider public realise the impact of these changes on children. If the public became fully aware of the darkness at the heart of this issue they would reject it utterly. As it stands, the predators who do support it are being protected by the dangerously naive.
For the progressive agenda to succeed, the creation order fashioned by God in the beginning must be destroyed. The trans issue is an existential requirement to those who want to reconstruct society according to their delusional and dark understanding of humanity.
The Rev. Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack is a retired Church of Scotland minister. Check out his many incisive articles on his blog, A Grain of Sand.
