’Mother’ is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. Not because the sound of the word is pleasing to the ear, like the sound of ‘serendipity’, ‘mellifluous’ or ‘lullaby’, but because it evokes the universal association with motherhood. Mother takes care of us with all her devotion, she defends us with all her being, she loves us with all her heart. Nothing comforts us like her protecting arms, nothing waves away our worries like her reassuring words. Mother is the first example we follow; she helps us find a way in this unknown world. She nourishes us, physically and mentally. The source of our existence is Mother – even those who do not love her, owe this life and all its gifts to her. The day she’s gone, life will never be the same. The overwhelming majority of all sentient creatures on Earth would agree, instinctively or consciously, that ‘mother’ means love, endless and unconditional.
However, some voices are calling for the banishment of this important word. Saying it could offend some people who belong to the transgender community. Transgenders are people whose sense of personal gender does not correspond to their birth sex. A woman who identifies as a man is a real man in their eyes, and some believe a man can also give birth to a child and breastfeed it. A man can thus be a mother, just as a woman can be a father.
A YouTube video that went viral shows a transgender woman who lets a baby suck on nipples that (obviously) do not eject milk. In other words: a biological man pretends to feed a confused child with imaginary milk, while the real mother, a biological woman with breasts that naturally produce real nutrituous milk the baby needs, takes chemicals to stop lactating. After the so-called ‘chestfeeding’, the baby is ‘supplemented’ with formula. As alternatives to the offensive word ‘mother’, the couple uses the words ‘lactating person’ or ‘childbirthing person’. ‘Breast milk’ is also off the hook and should be called ‘father’s milk’, ‘human milk’ or ‘man milk’.
In some circles, man milk flows out a totally different organ, but that aside. The male chest does not have mammary glands and due to a lack of a uterus and ovaries, men will, fortunately for them, never be burdened with painful deliveries. Any lactating person will always be female. So from an anatomical perspective, these neologisms are blatant falsehoods.
Falsehoods that have become mandatory language in the Maternity Service Department of Brighton and Sussex University Hospital, now called the Perinatal Service Department. The Health Services of Los Angeles County have also implemented the word chestfeeding in their official statements. To accommodate a tiny fraction of the population, western doctors and government agencies are now disapproving of fundamental words that humans have used for millennia. Science has now officially become inferior to gender ideology.
Ironically, the most zealous proclaimers of this ideology are not transgenders, nor are they elected by the transgender community as their spokespersons. They are radical leftist activists whose actions are motivated by virtue signaling, rather than concern for the fate of transgenders. Social media platforms are overwhelmed with their propagandistic that are eagerly absorbed by pubescent teenagers in full identity crisis.
They brainwash malleable minors into believing that sex and gender operate totally independently of each other, which they do not, and that gender is a social rather than a biological construct, a stereotypical behavioural pattern imposed upon us by the patriarchal society that also perpetuates racism and misogyny. The binarity of gender, according to them, is also an archaic and offensive concept, just like any other western value. Instagramscrolling youngsters now think there is an infinite number of genders they can choose from, and their liberal parents are encouraging them in doing so.
Nicholas Matte, a lecturer in Transgender Studies at the University of Toronto, takes this even further and argues that biological sex does not exist – a lie he repeats to hundreds of students every academical year, and no one seems bothered to stop him. Anatomical negationist are free to spread their dangerous ideological nonsense, while those who oppose them are accused of hate speech.
Unsurprisingly, these conceptual and linguistic absurdities are enthusiastically received by New Yorkers who identify as the moral avant-gardists of the world. Their authorities have already recognised more than 30 (sic) protected gender identities, and each of these groups demand their own pronouns. For example, non-binary people, identifying as man neither woman, should be referred to with ‘they’ and ‘their’. Any self-concocted pronoun the brain can come up with, must also be accepted and used by others, like ‘ze’ or ‘hir’. An untenable solution, as no one remembers changes in language that did not evolve naturally in society.
The New York City Commission on Human Rights Law clearly states the following: “The NYCHRL requires employers and covered entities to use the name, pronouns, and title (e.g., Ms./Mrs./Mx.) with which a person self-identifies, regardless of the person’s sex assigned at birth, anatomy, gender, medical history, appearance, or the sex indicated on the person’s identification”. Offenders can receive penalties up to 250 000 dollars.
If we indeed ban the truth and integrate lies into our everyday language, if we meekly watch a politically correct but false consensus enforced by radical left ideologues and the government, we are going down an extremely dangerous path where ideology takes precedence over scientifically indisputable facts, where absurdity overpowers logic.
The manipulation of our vocabulary is not only an attack on logic, but also on free speech. The Canadian professor of psychology Jordan B. Peterson, coined by the New York Times as the most influential intellectual of our time, warns: “The refusal to use new words is not reducible to disrespect for human rights. It is an imposition to free speech that is being implemented at the legislative level. Never before have we needed a law to transform the way people speak. It is one thing to forbid people to say certain things, such as denying the Holocaust, but quite another to require people to use new words that result from ideas of others.”
With free speech will also disappear free thought. After all, language allows the expression of complex thoughts and abstractions, and is the framework in which our world view is formed. When this linguistic framework is manipulated, our thoughts are squeezed into an ideological straitjacket, and our views and opinions are misled a priori. “The limits of language are the limits of my world”, said Ludwig Wittgenstein, language philosopher of the 20th century, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophus.
The creation of a Newspeak enforced by the government is not a solution at all for the transgender people who feel disadvantaged in society. The idea that using new words would improve transgender people’s status in society or improve their mental health is an unproven assumption. I think it will have exactly the opposite effect: it will widen the divide between transgender people and heterosexuals and worsen their psychological problems.
The many unanswered questions about who they are and who they want to be, often lead to suicidal thoughts, which get worse post-surgery. This tragedy falls like a dark veil over the multi-colored transgender community and is barely addressed by those who claim to fight for their rights. Studies show that 70% of transgender people living in trans-friendly countries have thought about suicide, and that 50% have attempted it. Suicidal people don’t need new terminologies, they need therapy and professionally guided self-reflection.
The only ones who benefit from implementing Newspeak are the neo-Marxist divide-and-rule power-seekers in parliament, who seek to to antagonize the heterosexual and LGBTQIA communities to divert the attention from their own corruption. If they really cared about transgender grief, they would mandate psychological support instead of new words.
“Lactating person” is not only a lie, but also an insulting term that excludes half of the world’s population: real women with real breasts who produce real milk, and who are real mothers.
Let’s stop lying.