Re: There Is No Trans Community

pyotr filipivich <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> Duque Mantee wrote
> 
>> Lock the faggots and their followers up away from children.

"Community" is one of those words that have been hijacked and ruined like 
"preferred, "apropriation" and "equity," among many others.

In the wake of the Nashville shooting, we heard much about the aftershocks 
that affected the “trans community.”

“Fear pervades trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter’s 
gender identity,” NBC News reported.

“Advocates fear an escalation of hate toward trans community after 
Nashville shooting,” warned NPR.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to the “trans 
community” being “under attack.”

There has been a proliferation of ersatz communities in recent years, 
typically marching under the collective banner of “marginalized 
communities.”

In an entry on “communities of color,” the website of the Human Rights 
Campaign captured the prevailing usage perfectly: “People of color who 
are also LGBTQ+ face a unique set of challenges based on their experience 
at the intersection of two marginalized communities in our society.”

This ideological use of the word “community” has very little or no 
connection to the actual phenomenon, which involves a discrete set of 
people, often living in close proximity, who share common practices, 
values, and norms.

The great German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies defined community as “an 
organic, natural kind of social group whose members are bound together by 
a sense of belonging created out of everyday contacts covering the whole 
range of human activities.”

Your neighborhood is a community, your church is a community and your 
pickleball league is a community.

To take a random example drawn from the life of Joe DiMaggio, there’s no 
doubt that Isola delle Femmine on the coast of Sicily, where the DiMaggio 
family had fished for generations, was a community and that North Beach in 
San Francisco, where Giuseppe DiMaggio moved the family around the turn of 
the century, was an Italian-immigrant community.

There are genuine, longstanding gay communities in neighborhoods of 
American cities.

But there is no overarching trans community any more than there’s a 
white, African American, left-handed or redheaded community.

It’s manifestly absurd to consider a disparate group of people 
constituting less than one half of 1% of the population spread out across 
the entirety of the country — from diverse walks of life and in 
different situations regarding their trans status — as a community.

Regarding their status, according to a recent study by The Washington Post 
and Kaiser Family Foundation, some of these people may just wear the 
clothes of the other sex, some may have had hormone treatments or surgical 
procedures; some may identify in public as trans all the time, some 
occasionally, some never at all; some, in fact many, may not even refer to 
themselves as trans.

It’s even more preposterous to speak of an LGBTQ community. There are 
plenty of gay people who think it’s wrong to try to convince what they 
consider gay girls or boys that they are really members of the opposite 
sex. They themselves have never had any doubt about their own sex, and 
they are supposedly part of the same community — thanks, mostly, to a 
widely cited series of letters — as people convinced they are the wrong 
sex?

The emphasis on faux community is obviously a function of identity 
politics. It is an attempt to play on our natural sense that communities 
deserve representation, and a way to flatten all members of a large group 
and subsume them into a single entity that progressives, and only 
progressives, can speak for.

If most trans people develop doubts about aggressive gender-affirming 
treatments for minors, it will never be said that the “trans 
community” opposes such procedures.

If we believe what we are told, there’s no fashionable community in 
America that ever has a conservative attitude or sentiment.

Of course, if someone started referring to “the white community” and 
expected collective demands attributed to it to be met, this would be 
considered ludicrous and noxious.

America in the 21st century needs more community, just not the kind that 
is now on offer.

<https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/there-is-no-trans-community/>