Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls ze, xer, xerself.
The moment the words "Call me Caitlyn" were printed on the cover of Vanity Fair, a shift happened in our society for the worse. The idea of transgenderism went mainstream overnight thanks to a mixture of forced acceptance from politicians, activists, and the corporate media. Any resistance was met with cancelation, job loss, and blacklisting.
Over the years, Gen Z would be the hardest hit by the trend as they would be easily seduced by the concept of "gender fluidity" thanks to their youthful ignorance and coming-of-age anxieties. Girls and women, in particular, would suffer the worst as they would walk into clinics like Planned Parenthood, which, with little to no real consultation or care as to how this would affect people in the long run, would begin permanently damaging people with hormone treatments.
All the while, the corporate media and Democrat politicians were celebrating transgenderism as if it was the latest and greatest movement the world had ever seen. They would invite people to the White House to celebrate it, sometimes resulting in grotesque displays of nudity, and refer to transgender women as the "backbone of society." Even Disney got into the mix by throwing nods to the movement during children's programming.
But beneath the placid narrative the corporate media and the left were trying to create was a clear problem with the transgender movement. Its depression and suicide rates were egregiously high. Their activist community attempted to force their will on everything from the schools to the workplace. Some of them were stripping and dancing provocatively in front of children. Stories of the government forcing parents to put their kids through hormone treatments would pop up from time to time. School teachers were taking it upon themselves to push transgenderism behind parents' backs, and some school boards even tasked teachers to keep secrets from parents about it all. Men began appearing in women's restrooms and locker rooms after forcing their way into women's sports. Men who claimed to be women would go to women's prisons, where they would rape female prisoners. Violence from people who identified as transgender went ignored.
And then a transgender lunatic shot up a school, killing six people, including three children, an event that the leftist media tried to blame on the state of Tennessee.
The people, once too afraid to say anything, became more than happy to push back. When Bud Light put Dylan Mulvaney on one of their cans, the people launched a boycott that cost the company billions. Counter-activist groups like "Moms for Liberty" garnered massive support as they fought back the transgender activists attempting to introduce illicit materials into children's school libraries. People like Riley Gaines became figureheads in the fight for keeping men out of women's sports.
Even some of the medical experts who pioneered "gender-affirming care" for kids began openly sounding the alarm and denouncing the treatments as harmful.
And now, as RedState reported on Monday, Planet Fitness is experiencing a massive loss of customers that is even affecting its stock price after it punished a woman for complaining that a man was shaving in the women's locker room:
Two weeks later, Planet Fitness has experienced massive membership cancellations and their stock has been devalued by $400 million. However, the organization continues to double down on their decision to allow biological men into women's spaces. Now people are looping Libs of TikTok in on the goings on behind the scenes.
A clear shift is happening in the culture, and it's not looking good for the transgender movement. The corporate media and the left are trying to keep it afloat, but nothing seems to be stopping the downhill trajectory of the people's patience and goodwill with the movement. Even with the corporate media trying to create a "trans-Floyd," the people just don't seem interested.
(READ: Why the Left Likely Won't Succeed in Creating a 'Trans Floyd')
At some point in the very near future, the movement's unpopularity will overtake the mainstream culture's ability to keep it afloat, and there will be a turning away. After a decade of this, it's clear that it's not healthy. It's destructive and causes harm to those who engage in it. It tears families apart.
Moreover, it doesn't sell. In fact, it's detrimental to companies that embrace it. Corporations will quietly step away as they already are.
I suspect the transgender movement doesn't have much left in the tank, and I can't wait until it sputters out and dies. Enough people have been permanently damaged. Enough women have been cheated out of everything from their spaces to their trophies. Enough families have had to bury family members.
It's time to bury this transgender movement.