Bathrooms are just the beginning: a scary look into the trans movement’s end goals
The battle over men accessing women’s bathrooms and vice versa
has little do with bathrooms or even transgenderism, a well-known LGBT activist
admitted last week. It has everything to do with re-working society and
getting rid of the “heterobinary structure” in which we live—eliminating
distinctions between “male” and “female” altogether.
Riki Wilchins, who has undergone “sex change” surgery and is a
far-left social change activist, wrote in the gay publication The
Advocate last week
that social conservatives and many LGBT activists are missing the point when it
comes to the transgender bathroom debate.
The title of Wilchins' article makes the points succinctly:
"We'll Win the Bathroom Battle When the Binary Burns."
People should be able to enter whatever bathroom “fits their
gender identity,” Wilchins wrote, but the fact that we even have “male” and
“female” bathrooms reflects something about society that needs to change.
There are many “genderqueer” or “non-binary” people, Wilchins
wrote, pointing to a student who recently “came out” to President Obama as
“non-binary” at a London townhall as a notable example.
“Non-binary” people don’t identify as male or female and they
often want to be referred to as “they” or “hir” or “zer.” So the fact
that there are even intimate facilities that reflect the “binary” truth about
gender should change, Wilchins wrote.
In the eyes of LGBT advocates, the notion of only two genders
(which one can pick, of course) is antiquated.
But transgenderism inherently acknowledges and actually
reinforces the binary nature of gender.
Transgenderism presumes that a man can be “trapped” inside a
woman’s body and a woman can be “trapped” inside a man’s body. It
encourages men “becoming” women to embrace femininity and wear dresses and
make-up. Similarly, transgenderism encourages women “becoming” men to
make themselves more masculine through hormones and by altering their
appearances, reinforcing the notion that men look and act a certain way.
“The long-term goals of many LGBT activists are actually not
just access to the restrooms of their preferred gender identity, but actually
destroying the concept of gender or the separation of the genders altogether,”
Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council,
told LifeSiteNews. Sprigg noted that when LGBT activists are appealing to
a mainstream audience, they “are accepting or implicitly accepting the
separation of male and female facilities” like bathrooms.
“They present this framework…that a transgender person is just
born in the wrong body…[they say] the woman born in a man’s body is really a
woman and therefore should be allowed to use the women’s room,” said
Sprigg. “But then, if you dig down…you find actually these
acknowledgements that they want to do away with the gender binary altogether.”
The challenges faced by “non-binary” people “cut to the heart of
arguments that trans advocates and their allies have been making for some time,
in the face of furious right-wing opposition to trans identity generally and to
‘boys in the girls' room’ specifically,” Wilchins wrote.
Wilchins continued:
But what happens when a genderqueer individual, who genuinely
looks and sounds profoundly non-binary or masculine, declares in a binary world
s/he would be most comfortable accessing the girls restroom? To say the least,
the optics will no longer work. Nor will appeals to practicality.
What really
needs to be contested here is not just our right to use bathrooms with dignity
(which would personally be very welcome), but the entire underlying
hetero-binary structuring of the world queers must inhabit.
The ultimate goal: an end to society’s ‘binary’
structure
People who advocate for bathroom privacy and transgender advocates who
insist boys should be allowed in girls’ bathrooms and vice versa are missing a
larger point, Wilchins wrote. The fact that there are even male and
female bathrooms reflects that our society is structured in a “binary” way, and
this needs to change in order for the full goals of the LGBT movement to be
enacted.
