The most dangerous thing about the language of gender identity legislation — including the version before Congress known as ENDA — is that it codifies self-perceptions. (You can read an extensive piece here which I wrote about ENDA when it was passed by the Senate last year.) Perceptions are protean things, slippery and ever shifting. They exist not just in the eye of the perceiver, but of the perceived as well. What you perceive today – about yourself or anyone else – may change completely tomorrow.

To codify self-perceptions as protected traits requires that the rule of law give way to as many different interpretations of perceptions as there are people perceiving and being perceived. Such Orwellian distortions of language always serve as recipes for tyranny. They become halls of smoke and mirrors that breed more ambiguity and confusion. It requires us to do away with any common acceptance of reality. This is a very hazardous path. It doesn’t lead to justice and it doesn’t lead to liberty for all. Ambiguity in the law cannot help but breed corruption. Such laws are bound to be enforced entirely at the whim of whatever bureaucratic clique rules the day.

The push for same sex marriage in many ways has operated as a feint or diversionary tactic that disguises the far more invasive agenda of transgenderism.