Trans is quieter but not going away. . .

As is typical, a heady euphoria of success can often be brought down to the level of managed disappointment.  Those in the LGBTQ+ coalition have seen trans issues as part of their overall purview but the rest of the population seems to have taken a more nuanced and deliberate approach to the trans issues.  It might make some of us think that they have been overcome or suffered a set back.  I only wish that were the case.  The media and the educational establishment are still firmly committed to the normalization of trans status and goals within the overall umbrella of society and government.  They have had to slow down a bit and be a little less front and center but they are still out to make sure that our children accept the trans status as normal even if the parents are more cautious.  That is what makes these social movements so dangerous -- they do not see setbacks as taking all that much away from their overall progress toward their goals.  In fact, I wonder if they do not rather count on those who have expressed caution or warning to its progress to wax and wane in their fervor whenever it appears we may have take some of the wind out of their sails.  If so, we could end up right where we did for abortion -- the law changed but people continued to act as if it was normal and moral to kill the child in the womb with a pill rather than a medical procedure.  The law sent it back to the states but the number of pharmaceutical abortions has increased and the overall number has not declined.  We won at the courts but lost in the court of public opinion.  Could that be exactly where we are now?

Our therapeutic Western culture has many aims to promote -- from endless life to painless death when we desire it from perfect designer babies to babies removed from the messiness of natural conception and birth, from maximum entertainment to limitless pursuits of preference, and from the relative truth defined by the individual to the good of the society overall which constrains our freedoms.  The trans agenda is part of this whole and the rest will be pursued whenever the individual trans issues are put on the back burner.  I am less concerned that any or all of these goals will ever be achieved than I am the whole of our society and the foundation of our liberty will be dismantled and cast aside in the pursuit of these goals.  In the end, it is not these individual issues that we are seeking but the fulfillment of the age old basic human desire to be like God.  From Eden to the present day, our undoing has been our willingness to do anything necessary to achieve that ostentatious ambition. Transgenderism has suffered a setback or two but in its place it is transhumanism that is under the gun as AI, the loss of common truth, and the destruction of common values proceed forth.  That is what I fear most -- not the loss of individual issues but our success going to our heads and our failure to see how the whole movement will usher in the destruction of marriage, family, liberty, life's sacred character, and our communal insistence upon defining what is good and right.  Once these are gone, we are undone.  What encouraged the continued destruction begun in Eden was when man looked around and saw that they did not die -- at least not right at that moment -- and kept on pursuing the goal of being gods instead of serving the God.  When we look around and take a breath and begin to believe that we have answered the existential threat of the transgender movement, we will give them the chance to normalize in the eyes of our children what we as adults think we must oppose for the sake of our children.  We will have preserved our children from those who insist they must claim a gender identity for themselves but we will not have preserved them from the loss of their very humanity without jobs, a purpose, a family, clear values, and a respect for life.