We are entering an age of nonsense. If this continues, we will all become confused idiots, unable to make sense out of anything we see or hear.

I first went to California in June of 1998. My host gave me the dime tour of San Francisco, which I thoroughly enjoyed. However, there was one disconcerting moment.

I had been divorced for four years at the time and was certainly “on the prowl.” As we were driving through one section of the downtown area, I remarked, “Wow! There certainly are a lot of women here.” To which my host responded, “They’re probably not all women, Dale.”

That wasn’t my first introduction to drag queens, but the event began to change things for me.

Now, 30 years later, I am seeing the results of a twisted society.

I am not blind nor ignorant of the fact that homosexuality and drag queens have always been a part of human society—probably since the beginning of time. However, for that part of society to gain the upper hand of controlling how the rest of society must speak and view reality is a new phenomenon and quite disconcerting.

I recall hearing decades ago that whenever a group begins calling for equality, their eventual goal is dominion. To that place we have arrived in 2026.

Much of this is due to the unrivaled influence of the transgender movement. Yet, let’s consider this movement through numbers before we look at their influence.

According to the Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA, “Approximately 2.8 million people aged 13 and older—1.0% of the U.S. population in that age group—identify as transgender, according to new estimates from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. This includes about 724,000 youth aged 13 to 17 (3.3% of youth) and around 2.1 million adults aged 18 and older (0.8% of adults).” (https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/trans-pop-estimates-press-release/)

Even though the article claims a 1% population of the United States to be transgender, it is actually less than that. The 2020 Census calculated 331 million people as residents of the USA. Regardless, the transgender population is such a small percentage of society it is remarkable that they are able to dictate to the majority how we are to relate to them.

That requirement has now been encoded into our statutory law so that if I fail to address someone according to their preferred whim of the moment, I could be held accountable for some sort of crime. I wasn’t amiss with my observation in San Francisco, but I would be remiss if I referred to someone as a man even though he was dressed as a woman flashing his penis.

Hypothetical ridiculous hyperbole? Maybe. But not nearly as ludicrous as the recommended guidelines for education of medical students espoused by the American Medical Association (AMA).

Richard Dawkins, renowned intellectual and avowed atheist, wrote that being able to choose your own gender is “a doctrine that has become highly influential. The American Medical Association in 2023 laid down some “Best practices for sex and gender diversity in medical education.” Medical students are to be taught that both sex and gender are “social constructed”. And, “It is appropriate to affirm each individual’s self-determination regarding both sex and gender labels.” (https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/is-the-male-female-divide-a-social)

Sex and gender are social constructs?

The argument of “socially constructed” is being used to deny reality and to make whatever I think the only truth that matters. This argument is specious at best.

There are social constructs with which everyone agrees as to their meaning—money for example. The small rectangular piece of paper with the number 1 on it represents an agreed upon value. It has no intrinsic value of its own like a bar of chocolate the same size.

While we are probably not going to change the rhetoric anytime soon, we should be aware of how institutions like the AMA are leading us—as if we were lemmings—over the cliff to our own destruction.

In affirming “each individual’s self-determination”, how is the transgender individual to be treated for medical conditions? The AMA doesn’t get into that, but if students are to follow the guidelines, then when a human comes into the office with a penis attached since birth and wants to know why their menstrual cycles have never arrived, how should the doctor treat that human? What drugs can possibly be recommended?

If this nonsense continues, the medical profession will soon be out of business due to the numerous lawsuits aimed at their incompetence.

However, the true incompetence lies with the lawmakers who have catered to this insanity.