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There comes a time in the life cycle of every cult when things become
so insane that, one way or another, the whole operation falls apart. It
wasn’t too long ago, for example, that a cult called “CUT” convinced
tens of thousands of people to hide in fallout shelters in Montana. The
point was to save themselves from nuclear apocalypse. But the
apocalypse never came, so eventually the cultists left the bunkers and
gave up on the whole idea. This was in the ’90s, if you can believe it.

A few decades before that, the same thing happened with “The Seekers”
in Michigan. Back in the ’50s, The Seekers thought they’d get swept up
by aliens in UFOs and taken to some faraway planet. Admittedly, it’s
not the most unreasonable belief. That one I might have actually
joined. But eventually, when they picked specific dates for the aliens’ arrival, and they never came, even the diehard Seekers gave up and
disbanded. Some dreams die hard.

Until recently, a notable exception to this general rule — the rule
that most cults quickly collapse under the weight of their own
absurdity — has been trans ideology. Transgenderism is a far deadlier
and more destructive cult than CUT, or The Seekers, or anything like
that. It also makes a lot less sense. The idea that anyone, even
children, can snap their fingers and become the opposite sex is,
objectively, crazier than fretting over nuclear war, and much crazier
than anticipating the impending arrival of aliens. And yet, for most of
the past decade or so, transgenderism somehow only grew more
influential, and corrupted more institutions, the more unhinged it
became. How could that be?

Whatever explains the remarkable longevity of the cult of
transgenderism — and we have talked extensively about how it came
about, and why — there is finally some good news to report. At long
last, the spectacular, slow-motion implosion of trans ideology is
underway. It’s only a matter of time — though it may be a while yet —
before it goes the way of all those other cults. We’ve seen the signs
of this for the past year. Think about the nearly two dozen states that
passed laws outlawing the sterilization of children. Consider the
success of “What is a Woman?,” which became one of the most-watched documentaries of all time. And of course, recall the catastrophic
market failures of Bud Light and Target, when they embraced the most
demented aspects of trans ideology.

Now there’s yet another sign that the fall of transgenderism is finally
upon us. And it may be the clearest sign yet. It comes from, of all
places, the state of California, where transgenderism is basically the
state religion.

This week, the Murrieta Valley School District in southern California
voted to require parental notification when students give any
indication that they want to change their gender. So, for instance, if
a student tells his homeroom teacher that he wants to be referred to as
a girl all of a sudden, then the homeroom teacher would be obligated to
inform that student’s parents. Murrieta became the second school
district in California to approve such a measure in just the last
month, after the Chino Valley School District.

This is a policy that trans activists, and state Democrats — most
notably the state attorney general — desperately wanted to prevent.
They understand that they need to indoctrinate children into the cult
of transgenderism as soon as possible, in order for the cult to
survive. And they understand that this indoctrination process is a lot
more difficult if parents are given the chance to interfere. That’s why corporate media was united against this. The Advocate, for example, ran
this headline: “California School District Will Make Staff Out Trans
Students to Their Parents.”

And yet, in California, arguably the most Left-wing state in the
country, despite all this pressure, the trans activists failed. How did
that happen?

To answer that question, and to understand the significance of this
moment, it’s important to start by presenting the trans activist side
of the argument, because you really need to see how much they’re
flailing. Here’s how one school board member began her argument in
opposition to the measure this week. To be clear, she’s arguing that
teachers should not have to tell parents if their children suddenly
start identifying as members of the opposite sex. Watch her opening
argument:

https://youtu.be/_wBYLH4Q-2c

This is the first, best argument that the school board member could
come up with. This is her case for why schools shouldn’t tell parents
that their boy now thinks he’s a girl, or vice versa. Notice that the
school board member doesn’t say she’s advocating for the best interests
of children. She doesn’t say it’s the best thing for the parents,
either. Instead, she issues a threat. She makes an appeal to lawfare.
She says that California has created a maze of laws and regulations on
this topic, and if the school board dares to take the side of the
parents, then the school board will be sued by the state attorney
general. And no matter what, that will cost millions of dollars,
because lawyers are expensive. And ultimately, parents will have to pay
those costs in the form of taxes.

That’s not an idle threat, by the way. Already, California’s attorney
general, Rob Bonta, has opened an investigation into the Chino Valley
school district for its parental notification policy. But put that
aside for a moment. Think, again, about how callous and brazen this is.
She’s not opening by saying her policy makes any sense, or helps anyone
— least of all the children she’s supposed to care about. She’s just
saying: obey, or prepare to deal with bureaucratic hellfire.

To be fair, a few minutes later, this school board member, whose name
is Nancy Young, eventually came up with another argument. Here it is,
in its entirety:

https://youtu.be/tm6ifOaOLzs

Let’s break this down. Nancy Young is saying that, at one point, she
had an openly gay male student. This student’s parents, allegedly, told
him to kill himself because he identified as a homosexual. Put aside
just how implausible and made up that story sounds. Let’s just take it
at face value for a second. Nancy Young concludes, based on that
singular anecdote of an obviously deranged hypothetical parent, that no
parent, in any circumstance, has the right to know what his or her
child is doing at school. You might as well point to a story of a
suicidal mother driving herself and her children over a bridge, and
conclude that no parent should have the right to drive their children
anywhere, for fear that they are all secretly plotting murder-suicides.

As with all logic by trans activists, this collapses the moment you
pause to think about it for more than two seconds. For one thing, it
would justify hiding literally everything from parents. If you follow
Nancy Young’s line of thinking, then schools shouldn’t tell parents if
their child was caught with, say, heroin, or a 9 millimeter handgun, or anything. After all, some parent somewhere might overreact and say
something really nasty. Perhaps parents shouldn’t be told if a child
has bad grades. You never know how the most unhinged parent might react
to that information.

But Nancy Young’s “reasoning” — if you can call it that — is completely anecdotal. It’s based on one example she provides, with no
corroboration whatsoever. Therefore, all we need to refute it is a
single child who regrets her decision to supposedly “transition.” Two
can play at the anecdote game, and the anecdotes on the other side of
this discussion are much more powerful. Not to mention they’re actually
true. And, as it happens, one such person was present at this school
board meeting in Murrieta. Her name is Chloe Cole. She’s become one of
the most outspoken advocates against so-called “gender affirming care”
for minors. In Murrieta, Cole testified about her experiences,
including getting a double mastectomy as a 15-year-old girl. She also
spoke about what happens when kids can hide their alleged “gender
identity” from their parents. Watch:

https://youtu.be/_wBYLH4Q-2c

Now you see why trans activists desperately want to silence Chloe Cole.
In fact, they wanted to silence her at that very school board meeting.
She’s a walking refutation of arguments from politicians like Nancy
Young.

So what else is there? What other possible reason is there to hide
information from parents about what their children are doing and saying
at school? You can probably guess by now that no other real arguments
were presented. But, just in case you’re curious, here’s a sampling of
what the trans activists served up:

https://youtu.be/gCoECtE7V90

“Agree with us or you’re homophobic; agree with us or you support
violence against children.” Convinced yet?

Probably not. Either way, there is an irony underlying all of this. And
it’s important to highlight it, because it exposes, once again, the
incoherence of trans ideology. As you saw, in California right now,
trans activists are arguing that parents don’t deserve to know anything
about their kids’ so-called gender identity in schools. But, at the
same time, trans activists — in the courts and in Congress — are
opposing bans on child mutilation on the grounds that *parents*, as
opposed to the government, should be intimately involved in their kids’ “healthcare” decisions.

Right now, for example, the ACLU is fighting to overturn Tennessee’s
ban on child sterilization. Here’s a quote from the legal complaint
against Tennessee: “That fundamental right of parents includes the
right to seek and to follow medical advice to protect the health and
well-being of their minor children.” A district court judge accepted
that argument. He found that, “The Court therefore agrees with
Plaintiffs that under binding Sixth Circuit precedent, parents have a fundamental right to direct the medical care of their children, which
naturally includes the right of parents to request certain medical
treatments on behalf of their children.” (Ultimately, the appellate
court quickly reversed that decision, finding that sterilizing children
may not, in fact, amount to constitutionally protected medical care.)

So, to recap: On the one hand, trans activists are saying parents have
the right to “transition” their kids. On the other hand, they’re saying
parents don’t have the right to know if their kid is “transitioning.”
This is the position of trans activists. Parents have the right to do
this to their kids, but don’t have the right to know if it’s being
done. This is the best reasoning they can come up with.

As another example, here’s a Democratic representative at House
Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago again citing “parental rights” as
an argument against bans on child mutilation:

https://youtu.be/oaN4c2hQrwg

A leading Democrat says that parents are, “involved in every phase of decision-making” involving child transgenderism. Any suggestion to the contrary, she says, is fear mongering. As we showed you a few weeks
ago, a Republican member of the committee later asked that same
Democrat whether she would therefore support a law requiring parental involvement in any child gender transition, she stammered and stuttered
and refused to commit. That’s because the parental rights line is a
total farce. It’s a shield they use whenever it’s convenient, and then
drop it the moment they have no use for it. They pretend to defend the
fortress of parental rights, but a moment later they have turned around
and trained their guns on the very thing they were claiming to defend
just a second before. And in this case, the hypocrisy and self-
contradiction is not just academic — there are real-world consequences.
After all, trans activists are the first to point out that trans-
identified kids are much more likely to be suicidal, which is true. And
yet if a parent has a child who is in a group that makes him a high
risk for suicide, trans activists believe this fact should be concealed
from them. How many children have died because they were convinced to
hide their gender confusion from their parents? How many suicides do
these trans activists have on their blood-drenched hands? Too many to
count, and yet these callous, narcissistic sociopaths don’t care.

But this is what happens. This is what is revealed. Without fail,
anytime you allow trans activists and pro-trans politicians to speak,
and you consider what they’re saying, the true horror of their ideology
comes into view. Along with its incoherence. They contradict
themselves. They reveal their own hypocrisy. They lie. They obfuscate.
They do all of that because they know, in the end, every cult suffers
the same fate. It collapses under the weight of its own absurdity, and
then is forgotten and disgraced forever. That is the future of trans
ideology. And it’s coming sooner than trans activists think.

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