We could go all the way back to the dawn of recorded human history, across every continent and culture, and none of them until very recently would have had the slightest difficulty telling the difference between men and women. There have been plenty of topics that have been hotly debated in history, but that is not one of them. When Mr. Rogers sang this little song about gender decades ago, he wasn’t making a political statement of any sort, he was just acknowledging simple, uncontroversial facts of life that everybody had known throughout history:

In fact, in places not polluted by left-wing thinking, nobody is confused about what a man and a woman are. For example, here are Maasai tribesmen being asked about women, men, and transgenders in Matt Walsh’s movie, “What is a Woman?” Their answers are the same ones you’d get from almost every person from China to Egypt to the Aztecs, from the beginning of history until recently:

Until they were recently politically pressured to lie about the subject, there was even pretty universal agreement among paleontologists that you could easily identify the gender of a skeleton that was hundreds or thousands of years old just by looking at the bones.

So, what happened? How did we go from this being a well-defined, universally understood topic that even children had few problems with to it becoming a topic of major controversy?