On Wednesday, I wrote an article talking about how transgenderism is a political sickness that infects you through social pressure, not a true mental illness that someone is born with like gender dysphoria, an illness that’s been conveniently tucked away into the shadows of society.
(READ: Transgenderism Is a Political Sickness, Not a Bodily One)
Transgenderism is an effective tool for narrative creation, vote garnering, and activist indoctrination. You’ll find that swapping identities often has far too much political commentary going along with it and that, while identity is technically the focus, the utilization of identity swaps always benefits one institution, and that’s the radical leftist activist community.
For instance, you’ll often find that someone’s transgender commentary usually involves speaking out against the “bigots” and “transphobes” trying to keep them down, or they’re discussing spreading their transgenderism to children. If this were truly about being themselves, then the outward fight would focus on being treated like everyone else. Instead, their entire fight is about going on the offensive against everyone else and expanding their membership.
The issue is that these activists are super successful in gaining new members. The question is why and how.
To illustrate this, I’m going to point you to, arguably, the most famous transgender person in the world, Dylan Mulvaney. “Famous” might not be the proper word here. “Infamous” is probably a better fit.
Mulvaney is at the center of a massive societal controversy. He is the embodiment of the straw that broke the camel’s back. When Bud Light — a supposedly all-American beer company that had always marketed itself as the beer of choice for the regular guy — decided to partner with Mulvaney to celebrate his “365 Days of Girlhood,” a line was crossed in the minds of Americans everywhere, and a boycott of Bud Light began that brought the company from being at the top of the cheap beer food chain to tossing it out of the top 10 altogether.
The beer is so ignored by Americans that Costco is now refusing to restock its shelves with the brand.
In fact, the Bud Light boycott had so much momentum that it spilled over into other brands as well, including Target, which is also suffering financially after it attempted to sell transgender merchandise to children.
As my colleague Ward Clark recently wrote, the entire country turning on Mulvaney has caused him to flee to Peru for his own safety. He claims he’s being followed and that he’s in some kind of danger. Clark writes that there isn’t any evidence that Mulvaney is being followed at all.
Dylan Mulvaney in Peru: "It’s a little sad that I had to leave my country to feel safe"
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 12, 2023
You’ll probably notice something odd right off the bat. If Mulvaney is globe-trotting because he’s on the run from people who want to do him harm, then why is he telling everyone exactly where he is?
It’s because Mulvaney isn’t actually in danger. The only thing he’s threatened by is not getting attention. He’s running from irrelevance in a world that clearly wants him to go away. In fact, that’s all Mulvaney has ever truly cared about; getting attention. As Clark notes in his own article, nothing Mulvaney gets up to matters more than this.
“It’s pretty certain that Dylan Mulvaney does not and never has suffered from gender dysphoria,” wrote Clark. “He has been and continues to seek attention by taking a social fad to the extreme, a grown man dressing up as a twelve-year-old girl and prancing around squealing like a cheap cartoon character, in a parody of “girlhood” that many find offensive.”
It’s all about attention and relevance. That’s all Mulvaney’s transgenderism is, and for the vast majority of people who identify as transgender in some capacity, that’s really all it boils down to as well.
Mulvaney is an extreme case in terms of attention-seeking. Going back and looking at Mulvaney’s timeline from a long time ago, you’ll see a man obsessed with the spotlight and keeping the camera on him just a little bit longer. He clearly has a desperate need to have his name on people’s lips and their eyes fixed on him.
While he’s an extreme case, this is an issue that many people suffer from nowadays, especially the younger demographic, which transgenderism primarily targets.
Teenagers, in particular, are easily roped into the identity game. They naturally feel unnatural and awkward. They are in the midst of battling emotions they have no idea what to do with as hormones flood their body and begin changing them from children to adults. It’s a rough time filled with a lot of uncertainty and angst.
Now combine that with the internet, a realm where people are always living their best lives and showing off how cool and interesting they are. People, especially teens, compare themselves to these people having a great life, and their insecurities are amplified. Comparison is the thief of joy, and their unhappiness grows as they feel their irrelevancy increase. They desire to be seen and to feel important. They want dopamine hits that come with likes and positive messages.
This leaves them vulnerable to predation by activists who tell them that they can be unique and important if they just embrace their true selves. They tell them all their awkwardness and insecurity stems from the fact that they were born in the wrong body. They aren’t the gender they’ve been told they are all their life. All they need to do to be unique, like everyone else, is join the transgender community.
The tactic works. Nearly 20 percent of Gen-Z identifies as LGBT in some capacity. Moreover, once they’re in that community, the cult-like tactics used to drag them further in and turn them into good little footsoldiers for the cause begin. That person is further isolated away from friends and family as they themselves become radical activists for the left.
Transgenderism is about politics for the activists that wish to see the Democrat Party benefit, but for many transgender people, this is simply about trying to feel relevant in a world where the primary currency is attention.
