By Peter Burrows 11/3/19 - elburropete@gmail.com - silvercityburro.com

“When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ From ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass,’ by Lewis Carroll

If a boy wants to be a girl and then declares he is a girl, does that make him a girl? Conversely, if a girl says she is henceforth a boy, does that make her a boy?

Some of you are thinking, “Stupid questions! Burro is off his meds again.”

If only. Those are questions being answered in the affirmative all too often today, and it’s time for the adults to put a stop to this Humpty Dumpty nonsense. For those of you who are not yet “woke” to what I’m referring to, it’s the push to grant transgenders privileges that deny cisgenders their rights.

O.K., what is a transgender and what is a cisgender?

A transgender is a person who identifies with the opposite sex and wants to be the opposite sex. This is not the same as being attracted to people of the same sex, which the dictionary defines as homosexuality. Sexual orientation is about who you’re attracted to, regardless of your sex.

Cisgender is the antonym to transgender. A cisgender identifies with the gender they were born with. Both cisgenders and transgenders can be homosexuals. Are you confused? Me, too, and it gets worse. For example, a transgender man can get pregnant. You’re thinking, “A MAN can get pregnant?” Yup. You see, a “transgender man” is physically a woman and a “transgender woman” is physically a man.

Political correctness requires that we address transgenders with the pronoun appropriate to whichever sex they are identifying with. Bruce Jenner, for example, now calls HERSELF Caitlyn Jenner. I’m OK with that because it’s a harmless social courtesy, but prior to Jenner’s sex-change surgery, if Caitlyn had wanted to go to the ladies’ room with my daughter, HE would have been asked to wait outside.

Ol’ Humpty is must be really yukking it up these days, and rather scornfully, too. After all, those who worship at the altar of Political Correctness make such damn fools of themselves. Why doesn’t society tell Humpty, “NO. A word does NOT mean what you choose it to mean? A boy is not a girl simply because he says he is. Truth is not subjective.”

The whole thing reminds me of a story about Abraham Lincoln, probably apocryphal, but wonderfully appropriate. Reputedly, someone asked Lincoln how many legs a dog would have if you called the tail a leg. He answered, “Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

Today, Abe would be called a “transphobe,” which is the word the Left uses to intimidate anyone who opposes any part of the transgender agenda. It goes on the same list as “homophobe” and “Islamophobe.”

In part Three, we’ll look at what the transgender crowd is doing to athletics. Till then, you might enjoy Lucy and Linus, especially Linus:

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