Lesson From History: Transgender Mania Is Sign Of Cultural Collapse - Camille Paglia

The transgender question, a topic that has been gaining traction in recent years, is not just about the liberation of fluidity. There's an undercurrent of something else happening, something that has seen a significant increase in the number of young people registering for clinical interventions on transgender issues. This trend has sparked a nerve-wracking business, especially for those who dare to touch on this topic, like German Greer and Ian McEwen.

The Transgender Rebellion

The transgender rebellion came at a time when there weren't these ideas in the air. The moment you are dissatisfied with the limitations of your present gender definition, there is an enormous mechanism waiting to alter your body. This mechanism is not just about expanding women's rights but also terminating men. The gender doesn't really exist; it's not really polarity. Everything's all about expanding women's rights but also terminating men.

The Assault on Masculinity

The collaboration of the bureaucratic machinery with the transgender definition has to do with the assault on masculinity. Transgender is not really a gender; it's not really polarity. Everything's all about expanding women's rights but also terminating men. The gender doesn't really exist; it's not really polarity. Everything's all about expanding women's rights but also terminating men.

The Late Phases of Culture

Historically, the movement toward androgyny occurs in late phases of culture. As a civilization is starting to unravel, you can find it again and again and again through history. In the Greek art, you can see it happening all of a sudden. There's a kind of transformation that occurs, where the sculptures of handsome new young men athletes that used to be very robust suddenly began to seem like wet noodles.

The Disconnect between Infatuation and Reality

There is a tremendous and rather terrifying disconnect between the infatuation with the transgender movement in our own culture and what's going on out there. The adult community trying to be understanding is involved in impossibly making a permanent change in someone's life that could have tragic consequences.

The Ominous Future

I feel it's ominous. I question whether the transgender choice is indeed genuine in every single case. But what concerns me is when well-meaning adults believe that they're helping people by making the easier some permanent change in the body for which there is no going back. For example, Brown University, one of the elite Ivy League schools in the United States, put sex reassignment surgery on its student insurance program. This makes young people today facing an uncertain job market feel like they have a better judgment for them to move now rather than to wait till they don't have a job and living in their parents' basement.

In conclusion, the transgender question is not just about the liberation of fluidity. It's a complex issue that involves the assault on masculinity, the late phases of culture, the disconnect between infatuation and reality, and the ominous future. It's a journey that is not just about the liberation of fluidity but also about the liberation from the constraints of societal norms and expectations.