How Did We Get Here? The Evolution of Transgender Ideology

Many Catholics are puzzled by the embrace of incoherent ideas and straightforwardly bizarre practices advanced by the cultural elites in contemporary American society.  How can young men claiming to be women seriously expect to compete in women’s athletics?  But they do.  And they are competing.  How can women in their final weeks of pregnancy discredit the fact that they are carrying a human child and then murder it?  But they do.  And some of them celebrate with abortion parties.  How can state governments having convicted men of felonies incarcerate them in women’s prisons when those men start taking hormones?  But they do.  And the predictable results of sexual assault are now becoming apparent.  It seems to many that we aren’t living in the same world anymore.  And that sentiment isn’t far from the truth of the matter, so let’s look at how we got here, because radical rejection of human nature doesn’t just happen.