(Please note my announcement on the page above, “My new book.”)
The news cycle eats information up like my pug eats dog chow…as much as possible all the time and any time. The words “news” is fast becoming a misnomer. As soon as something is news, it’s old already.
So the all-consuming fascination with Caitlyn Jenner has about it the ring of “so yesterday.” An article like this seems almost passé. But, not so fast. Indeed Caitlyn shows up to a youth LGBT center with a stated purpose, “Now that Caitlyn Jenner is living her truth, she wants to help others do the same.”
Living your truth. Now, there’s a conundrum if ever there was one.
To help you think about it ask yourself about Rachel Dolezal. Never heard of her. Read this.
Her parents insist she is Caucasian. But, for years she has been living her truth; she’s been living as and claiming to be an African-American.
Others have placed this in the transgender debate, as I am, and been criticized for it, drawing attention to the difference between deceit and fraud, on the one hand, and psychological and emotional turmoil on the other. Gender identity is authentic, while deceit is not.
That may be so. I am not opining on that.
I want to expand the trans-ization movement’s logic and application.
Consider this assertion: I have for years, since my birth felt, really felt, deeply felt, been haunted by my feelings in fact, that I am a turtle. I dress as a turtle when in private and usually remain hidden within an inner shell. I am here today to announce that henceforth I am a turtle and wish no longer to be treated as a human being. I have crossed over to turtlehood. I have…uh…trans-itioned.
Transgender is OK. Why not transrace? Transspecies?
Wait: didn’t George the Third think he was a clock? How about trans-entity?
Why should the logic of trans-ization (so far as there is logic to it) be limited to gender?
The answer to this question, should there happen to be one, must, of course, express truth. Isn’t that what it’s all about? Living the truth?
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