Transgenderism is not an institutional faith movement, though it certainly seeks power within institutional frameworks. It is a Remixed religious faith movement, the most successful of our time, and patently consumerist. Its missionary activity seeks to “consciously stress the moral and ideological importance of ‘rewriting the script; or ‘remaking the rules’ when it comes to societal behavior, rather than adhering to traditional or institutional norms,” as Burton describes, not mentioning academic Queer Theory. For example, some lesbians can have penises now, because those men say so, and their words are magic. Script rewritten. -
Pedro Gonzalez, an associate editor at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, writes in a recent white paper of “two motives driving the normalization of transgenderism: ideology and interest, or those who are true believers and those who merely see transgenderism as an avenue for increased profit and power.”
“The result, however, is the same,” Gonz…
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