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Michael Knowles is an American activist on cultural issues. He spoke at an event this month where his exchange with a student was fruitful in eliciting how to attack transgenderism is not to attack those who identify as one of the opposite sex. His comments at another speaking engagement this month drew criticism that he wanted to eradicate those who do identify as one of the opposite sex. What he said, however, was this: "Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level."
Further, the distinction he makes is clear in this exchange:
Student: You talk about transgenderism, which you refer to as an ideology. But … the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, they don’t view it as that. They specifically don’t see transgenderism. They refer to gender identity disorder, which is the psychopathology.
Michael Knowles: But I’m not talking about gender identity disorder. I’m talking about transgenderism. Which is an ideology.
Student: That’s not my question, so I’m not going to get into that.
Knowles: I just wanted to correct your premise.
Student: But gender affirming care is what you would encompass in transgenderism. But gender affirming care is also towards the treatment…
Knowles: Gender affirming care is when you tell a confused boy that he’s really a boy, not a girl. Gender denying care is what the ideologues are pushing forward now, which tells sexually confused boys that they need to chop off their genitals.
Student: Would you consider drag queens a consequence of transgenderism?
Knowles: No, no. Drag queens, transvestitism… All these kinds of eccentricities have existed through all of human history. … The ideology [is] that a man really can become a woman and a woman really can become a man, and that men who identify as women are entitled to the public rights that women are entitled to. That is very different than a man … dressing as a woman for the giggles of patrons at a seedy bar or something like that. That doesn’t threaten to destroy all of society, but the denial of sexual identity and the obliteration of women’s private spaces and rights, that does threaten to upend our entire culture.
See the exchange on Twitter here.
A question of immense interest to this blog ‒ Is the following stance accepted today?: “Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.”
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