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A man undergoes the mutilative procedure known as “gender-reassignment surgery” and then wins the women’s division of golf’s premier long drive championship.

There was a time when a sexual identity crisis was thought a problem of adolescence and only discussed in psychology journals. But now our whole civilization is experiencing one, as we’ve gone from confusion about the roles of the sexes, to a battle of the sexes, to a battle about how significant the category of “sex” actually is, to subordinating it to “gender,” and finally to a battle of the “genders.”

Such a battle has just played out as 55-year-old Lana Lawless (an assumed name), a man who used to be a 245-pound SWAT cop for the city of Rialto, California, has just won the women’s division of the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship.

Allowing such individuals to compete in women’s athletic contests is nothing new. It dates back to 1977, when Renee Richards (formerly Dr. Richard Raskind) won a court battle that allowed him to compete on the women’s tennis circuit. Now, three decades later, many sporting organizations – including the International Olympic Committee – have rules in place allowing mutilated men to compete alongside women. In other words, we went from altar boys to altered boys in just a couple of generations.

The real problem, however, is that we have an altered society, one thoroughly confused about so many things, not the least of which is the nature of the sexes.

Personally, I don’t refer to any of these altered men as “she.” This is mainly because you cannot change your sex any more than you can your species, and I don’t subscribe to the concept of “gender.” Believe it or not, many altered-men activists agree with me; they will say that while “sex” is inborn, “gender” is chosen. Why do you think the preferred labels today are not “transsexual” and “sex-change operation” but “transgendered” and “gender-reassignment surgery? These terms are part of a social-engineering scheme to alter society’s thinking. They reflect the belief that people have gender (it originally referred only to words) and that it can be whatever your feelings dictate. This is why I won’t use the word gender when referring to people any more than “she” when referring to Lawless. When we use these elements of the lexicon of the left, we unwittingly acknowledge that the concepts they represent are valid.

In other words, there cannot be gender-reassignment surgery because unless “gender” is synonymous with “sex,” it’s not a quality people possess. And there cannot be a sex-change operation because one cannot change his sex. As soon as we deviate from this principle, the form of our argument negates its substance and we help legitimize that against which we fight.

Yet critics tell me I’m uneducated on the matter, that I just don’t understand the science. My response is that they don’t understand the philosophy, without which they can’t interpret the science.

What does it mean to be a man or a woman? Is it just a matter of superficial qualities? Well, good theology tells us that your sex is something existing in your very soul, but I don’t expect this to carry much weight with secularists. So instead of delving into what sex is, I’ll explore what it is not.

If a man loses his genitalia in an accident, is he somehow less male? Or is he just a mutilated male? We know that a pre-pubescent boy has the same hormone balance (low estrogen levels) as a pre-pubescent girl and no male secondary sex characteristics. With his high voice and low muscle mass he is certainly less masculine than his father, but is he any less male than dad?

If that boy lost his genitalia in an accident and thus had none of the three attributes – male primary and secondary sex characteristics and an adult male hormone balance – would he be any less male? This is where critics may say that some elements of femaleness are still missing; for starters, external primary and secondary female sex characteristics would have to be created via surgery and estrogen treatments.

If this were done and the boy dressed and wore his hair like a girl, he’d certainly be able to masquerade as a female very effectively. This point is sometimes made by altered men’s advocates. But does it matter? A great imposter may be indistinguishable from the real thing, but he is no less an imposter.

I would point out that altered men still have an XY (male) chromosome configuration, and, while I won’t boil sex down to just genetics either, it’s certainly more significant than superficial qualities. After all, a boy only develops properly as one because his genes send messages for the release of testosterone in his body while in the womb.

This is where “gender” comes into play. Critics will say that the most significant factor of all is that you must feel like a member of a sex trapped in a body of the other; in other words, you may be physically male but your “gender” is female. The psychobabblers call this “gender dysphoria” – giving something an impressive medical name always lends credibility. And feelings are the ultimate arbiters of reality.

But now consider that the mental health profession has also “identified” a psychological disorder called “body dysmorphia.” Its most extreme manifestation is when a person strongly feels that a certain body part – an arm, leg, etc. – doesn’t belong on his body. He feels it’s alien to him and that he won’t be happy until it’s amputated. There are doctors willing to perform such an operation so that their patients can be “cured.” It’s a remedy prescribed after a brilliant diagnostic process: ascertain if the person truly feels that his body doesn’t conform to what he feels like on the inside. Remember, feelings are the ultimate arbiters of reality.

But here is reality: there may be a man in a psychiatric institution who feels he’s a wolf. He could have his body surgically altered so that he has fur, a tail, paws, fangs and a snout. He could then run about on all fours and howl at the moon, but he would not be a wolf. He would simply be what he is, a troubled man who needs not his body altered, but his mind.

Man Allowed in Women’s Athletic Event . . . and Wins It

No doubt — with the “Socialist Party” firmly back in power in this country — these folks will be meeting in the John … and making a great deal of noise.

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