Just as “mental health professionals” a generation ago supported the child abuse delusions, and even participated in prosecuting the unjustly accused, so too have they fueled the fire of the transgender delusion.

Most important, however, the cause has received the imprimatur of “experts.” The very people who should know better have bought into the hysteria. This all-too-human tendency to suspend individual critical judgment and go along with the crowd is greatly facilitated by social media. Such popular delusions are characterized by a false belief unsupported by any scientific or empirical evidence and have a contagious quality that overrides rational thinking and even common sense. These last two involved bizarre accusations of child abuse and resulted in the prosecution and ruined lives of the falsely accused. The movement’s philosophical foundation qualifies it as a popular delusion similar to the multiple-personality craze, and the widespread “satanic ritual abuse” and “recovered memory” hysterias of the 1980s and ‘90s. Transgenderism would refute the natural laws of biology and transmute human nature. These contentions, the conceptual foundation of transgenderism, fly in the face of reality: the biological difference between the sexes. While fair-minded people can agree that gays or people with gender confusion should not be discriminated against, the general public doesn’t appear to be ready to accept gender as simply a social construct or that people can be whatever gender they choose.

However, transgenderism as a normative lifestyle may be a hard sell. Clearly, the transgender phenomenon is the tip of the spear of the LGBT movement, greatly energized by the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage that includes in the definition of liberty the right of people to “define and express their identity.” For the LGBT movement this literally includes the right to decide one’s gender, to claim the rights of an alternative gender (since gender is malleable, there are choices other than simply male or female), have the choice acknowledged by society as a civil right, and ultimately become accepted as a conventional lifestyle.

The gender delusion