By Jonathon Van Maren August 29, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — It is a mark of our decadence, at this time of unprecedented prosperity and technological advancement, that progressives have not become happier with the evolution of society. Rather, each new week seems to bring with it a new set of oppressions that must be dealt with, a new…
By Jonathon Van Maren These days, it seems, the trans activists are everywhere. There was the “pregnant dad” guy who announced that he and his gay partner were going to have a child, chatting with several media outlets about the difficulty and discrimination he faces as a “pregnant man,” which the rest of us will have to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Feminism rebelled against reality. Transgenderism seeks to abolish it entirely. But the feminists and the gender ideologues are beginning to realize that their worldviews don’t line up very nicely. It seems as if our culture doesn’t quite understand just how radical the transgender fad actually is—or how genuinely insulting it is…
By Jonathon Van Maren I was planning to write a column today on Andrea Long Chu’s brutal op-ed in the New York Times on this weekend on living with gender dysphoria, bluntly titled, “My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy,” but I see that Ryan T. Anderson (author of the seminal work When Harry Became…
By Jonathon Van Maren October 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In a story so shocking that some actually didn’t believe it when I first wrote on the subject, The Telegraph reported last year that in the United Kingdom, the transgender ideology was about to transform the Girl Guides with updated rules: Boys who identified as girls were permitted to…
By Jonathon Van Maren A round-up of a few of the latest developments: *** The Daily Beast is reporting that New York City is set to allow a gender-neutral option on birth certificates, a policy that does not appear to be thought through: A new bill in New York City will soon allow non-binary people born in…
By Jonathon Van Maren It’s about time that governments began to take a close look at why teenage hordes are boarding the transgender train—and why that train appears to lack brakes. The Economist recently asked why so many girls were heading into gender clinics, and statisticians have expressed shock at the skyrocketing numbers of young…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve said often that Dr. Anthony Esolen is one of the greatest writers of our time, especially on the culture wars that plague us. His 2017 book Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture was easily the best book on that subject in years, and it is simply true that Esolen…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is one mark of our crazy times that whenever somebody points to a logical outcome of one of our more radical ideologies—say, the idea of biological men being sent to female prisons because they claim to be women—they are angrily ridiculed and often accused of being transphobic. Two things are…
By Jonathon Van Maren File this in the category of “this is what happens when you accept the premises of the transgender movement.” From the BBC on September 6: A transgender prisoner has admitted sexually assaulting inmates at a women’s jail. Karen White, 51, who was born male but now identifies as a woman, has…