Speaking of the Democrats and others pushing transgender ideology, Gabbard said, “they think they’re God,” able to define the very nature of truth itself.

The notion that biological males are truly women if they claim to identify that way is “insane on its face,” the former Democrat said in an interview with The Daily Signal at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, outside Washington, D.C.

“Anyone who has any common sense recognizes the insanity of what is happening before our very eyes,” she said. Yet the transgender movement also reveals “a deeper problem,” that “people in positions of power deny that there is such a thing as objective truth, such as the difference, the biological difference between a male and a female.”

[This is why I have begun to refer to this as gender theology. It is completely untethered from biology, and also from any serious psychiatric science. There are no long-term studies supporting the idea that “transitioning” provides any superior outcome for dysphorias over traditional therapy, and mounting evidence that it it’s much worse in the long term. Gabbard hits the nail on the head — this is about presuming ourselves to be gods with the ability to reorder reality based on our own whims. It’s a religion. — Ed]