Leftists are trying to find ‘transgenders’ in history to legitimize their cultural revolution
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On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon examines the recent attempts to ‘backfill a pedigree’ for the transgender movement in order to give it credibility.
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon discusses the implications of the transgender movement’s attempt to point to potential examples of transgenderism in history for greater legitimacy.
Jonathon begins his discussion recalling that while at Simon Fraser University, one of Canada’s most left-leaning universities, the concept of transgenderism was considered something “really fringe” by even the “hardcore left wingers” he recalled working with or arguing against. In fact, Jonathon recalls the campus’ reaction to a “Transgender Day of Remembrance” as if it were a “fringe freak show by those who were looking at it,” even while same-sex “marriage” was being debated in the campus newspaper. Meanwhile, college professors at some universities in the present day will at times ask for students’ preferred pronouns, introducing themselves with their own.
According to Jonathon, when newer ideologies gain power they will necessarily seek to insert themselves in the past by claiming not to be new at all, thus rewriting history as they do so. The gay lobby did this when it claimed that a group of happily married fathers in history were actually homosexuals, including Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare. Even some progressive Scripture scholars read homosexual inclinations into biblical figures such as Ruth and David. The transgender movement, Jonathon notes, has begun to do this, which he says would be funny if not for the seriousness of the problem.
Citing as an example of such an imposition, Jonathon points to the alleged transgenderism of Roman Emperor Elagabalus, a claim that began circulating in November last year when the North Hertfordshire Museum in the United Kingdom would refer to the emperor with female pronouns in an exhibit. The museum further said that it makes its decisions on pronouns based on the advice of two LGBT organizations, and that it seeks to make its exhibits as “up to date and inclusive as possible.”