We’re only six days into the new year, but if you were hoping that things were going to calm down a bit and seem a little less weird, I’m sorry to say that the ship has already sailed. The past several years saw the rise in popularity of transgenderism, the idea that you can be something other than the biological reality you were born into. That mistaken concept seems to have inspired many other people to adopt “identities” that don’t comport with reality. You can identify as a race other than your own, e.g. Elizabeth Warren or Rachel Dolezal. You can adopt any religious affiliation you like, most recently demonstrated by George Santos, who is apparently “Jew-ish.”

But we may be hitting a tipping point with a discovery made by Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection. The transgender crowd insists that gender is a “social construct,” and almost everyone on the left has been jumping on that bandwagon. But now we’ve found at least a couple of people who are claiming that age is also a social construct. That’s right. The date on your birth certificate is meaningless if you “identify” as being a different age than the number of years you’ve been here on earth.

Transage Activists Now Claim “Age Is A Social Construct,” Just Like We Predicted Would Happen

The foundation of the transage claim is that “age is a social construct,” and just because someone might biologically be 18 years old doesn’t necessarily mean they identify with that age. In November, a Twitter account called @agedysphoria shared a thread about what transage is and why transage people wanted to be widely accepted into society. It sounds like something straight out of a dystopian novel.

“Transage people have no intent of trivialising age regression. In fact, many transage people are also age regressors,” she writes. “Age regression is a mental reversion to a younger age. Transage reflects a longterm incongruence between one’s age identity & their chrono age.”

You can read the article from Evie Magazine that Mike was referencing here. Someone’s “chrono age” is apparently a parallel to describing someone as “cisgender.” That’s the outdated idea that your age can be measured in the number of years since your birth.

Much like LaChance, I was hoping this was a parody. But as it turns out, there actually is a Twitter account for transageism (listed as “agedysphoria“) though it was only created last November and hasn’t been very active.

The owner of the account attempts to offer some scientific backing for this insane concept by linking to an article dealing with “biological aging.” But that’s not an accurate example at all. Calculating a person’s biological age is just a medical measure comparing the relative state of health or amount of physical damage that someone has sustained as compared to what a typical patient would display.

Perhaps this is a joke or perhaps it isn’t. But it would fit in pretty well with the patterns we’ve seen emerging in the new American left, wouldn’t it? If men can pretend they are women and be taken seriously in the media, why couldn’t an older person pretend to be young again or even a child?

That raises some seriously disturbing possibilities, however. If a 50-year-old male pedophile is found having sex with an underage girl, he could protest any possible arrest. He could just say, “back off! I’m transage and I’m really only 14, so this isn’t illegal.” Would that really be all that different than a boy identifying as a female so he can get into the girls’ showers in school or a male criminal trying to be transferred to a women’s prison?

The world has been coming unglued before our eyes for a fair bit of time now. I won’t be terribly surprised if, by the end of this year, some five-foot-two-inch white dude demands a position as the starting center for the New York Knicks because he identifies as a six-foot-ten-inch Black guy. And when they turn him down, he’ll probably rake in millions from the ensuing lawsuit.