Tea at Trianon: The Trans House Of Cards Is Falling

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, April 14, 2024

The Trans House Of Cards Is Falling

From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette:

To a parent watching the news or media nowadays, it may appear that a large percentage of the young people in this country are transgender and need gender transition therapy or surgery. Children come home from school, even in our small county, and tell their parents about boys claiming to be girls in the girls' locker room/bathrooms and vice versa. Even our religious holidays, such as Easter, are now being touted as days to celebrate transgender people. Friday, April 12 was designated "Day of Silence" by GLSEN and students were encouraged to walk out of schools to stand up for transgender rights. It seems to be the norm rather than the exception. It is not.

This is a myth promoted by the transgender activists and the pharmaceutical companies. The Center for Disease Control states that 1% of the population is transgender. The PEW Research Center states:

Adults under 30 are more likely than older adults to be trans or nonbinary. Some 5.1% of adults younger than 30 are trans or nonbinary, including 2.0% who are a trans man or trans woman and 3.0% who are nonbinary – that is, they are neither a man nor a woman or aren’t strictly one or the other. (Due to rounding, subtotals may not add up to the total.) This compares with 1.6% of 30- to 49-year-olds and 0.3% of those 50 and older who are trans or nonbinary.

The share of U.S. adults who are transgender is particularly high among adults younger than 25. In this age group, 3.1% are a trans man or a trans woman, compared with just 0.5% of those ages 25 to 29. There is no statistically significant difference between these two age groups in the share who are nonbinary or the total share who are trans or nonbinary.

About 5% of young adults in U.S. are transgender or nonbinary | Pew Research Center

However, one has to wonder if the PEW Research Center is accurate in its data. For one thing, what does it mean if a person identifies as "transgender?" Are they truly trans and committed to hormone therapies and/or gender reassignment surgery? Or does it mean they use the fashionable pronouns or claim to be transgender without really living the trans life? Has being "trans" become new "cool" thing to do in order to get attention? Like tatoos or piercings used to show that one was a rebel in the 60's and 70's, is being trans a way to stand out in a crowd? Is it a social contagion? (Read more.)