That Trans Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Why should I care if Jim decides he is now going to called Susan and dress as a woman, how does that affect me?

I think I found a key to why a few months back. Around the same time Trump decided to legislate gender into one of his Executive Orders, I discovered John Wyndham’s book The Chrysalids. It’s about a post-apocalyptic colony near what we know as Labrador. They have codified a strict definition of what counts as a person, and any deviation from that definition is considered an Offence against God. If you’re lucky, they only sterilize you. If your deviation is severe enough, you’re considered a Blasphemy and either banished to the Fringes or killed outright.





I see something very similar going on with today’s vocal transphobes. Except that, while in the Chrysalids, you could potentially argue that something like this may be necessary for human survival, in this case, it’s just so they can reinforce the gender hierarchies of old.