I have no personal grudge against people who want to indulge in their fantasies about being the opposite sex.

It’s a sign of profound unhappiness, and I think it would best be treated as such. If somebody wants to identify as transgender and doesn’t push their fantasies on me or mine, have at it. Stay away from the children, but wear all the dresses you want.

But there is something obscene about people who demand others read their minds and that they participate in the charade. We indulge 5-year-olds who pretend to be Superman and expect us to pretend along with them, but when grown adults throw hissy fits when others can’t read their minds and play along…they need an attitude adjustment.

An example, and hardly an uncommon one, struck me as particularly annoying for some reason. I think it is because it is a privileged PhD getting pissy with a TSA agent who is just trying to do an awful job while being polite.

“Sir,” in this case, was an honorific. And it is absolutely impossible for anybody who doesn’t inhabit the mind of “Dr. Emily Arndt” to guess that this very male-looking person is supposedly a female.

That is a dude. You know it. I know it. “Emily” knows it too. After all, “Emily” has a PhD from MIT, so I expect they got a bit of biological education somewhere along the way.

Emily used to be Eric, and if he wants to play-act at being Emily I am fine with that. But demanding others play along, and giving people doing a difficult and unpleasant job trouble for not guessing at one’s own particular fantasy is unacceptable.

So got called “sir” by a customer. What a fuckwit. I’m even wearing a pride pin with the trans 🏳️‍⚧️ flag on it.

Don’t be that guy. If you can’t bring yourself to get it right then don’t say shit. Don’t misgender trans people. #translivesmatter pic.twitter.com/eirFUMe8hy

— Leah Dragonfly – She/Her (@leah_dragonfly) February 13, 2023

It would be much easier to get along with people in the alphabet crowd if they didn’t spend all their time demanding that we change everything about ourselves in order to make them feel better about their own dysmorphia. The aggression, the striking out, and the performative victimhood are tiring.

Grown adult is distraught over being misgendered. We have a serious mental health crisis in this country. pic.twitter.com/5FuU7CHpPC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 22, 2023

I have known people with actual gender dysphoria, and as with any other dysphoria it is heartbreaking. Severe, persistent unhappiness deserves compassion; nasty, aggressive, demanding, and recruiting behaviors deserve strong pushback.

How hard is that to understand?

We all understand, with the exception of a few genuinely disturbed people, that what we are seeing is unhappy people making a power play over the rest of us. The comply or else attitude. Do what I say. I feel unsafe. If this were about tolerance, there wouldn’t be so many videos on Twitter or TikTok about how awful normal people are.

It’s BS.

Humiliating a TSA agent, a clerk at a store, a fast food employee, or your coworker isn’t a request for compassion or recognition; it’s being a detriment to society.

We keep on being gaslighted about how all the alphabet people want is a live and let live society.

This is what Gender Ideology does to young confused people. Incredibly sad pic.twitter.com/Ff1ylcReGI

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2023

Clearly not. Nobody is leaving those of us who aren’t into pretending that there aren’t only two sexes alone. We are being forced to comply with the ever-changing demands of activists, having our livelihoods threatened, and having our children recruited into a cult.

Shake Shack agrees to dish out $20K to misgendered California employee https://t.co/urv3fz42n0 #FoxNews

— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) February 14, 2023

I never gave transgendered people a thought before they became activists. It was simply none of my business. It seemed weird, and outside my personal experience, but if a few people feel more comfortable acting as if they were the opposite sex that seemed harmless to me.

I wished them well and hoped they got the help they needed to be happier.

I think that was true of most people.

Teacher celebrating “pronouns day” in @MCPS while a person holds a transgender pride flag pic.twitter.com/PkdM6N90sr

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2023

That’s not possible now. We have been unwillingly drafted into a culture war, and the only thing we can do is fight back or submit. As long as we are being attacked on all fronts, we have to defend our cultural territory.

I used to have a relatively libertarian attitude about most social issues. As long as people stick to their knitting I am willing to stick to mine. But when my friends, my neighbors, my schools, my job, and my pocketbook are being attacked, I have to fight back.

We all do.