Rupa, I love you dearly. But we would not be seeing this response had the police been honest from the beginning and said the killer was a he. They didn’t. They, and the media in general, pretended he was a she. Like Carney’s Vaclav Havel greengrocer story, they are living the lie. The response you are seeing online is Canadians asking us to take down the signs. The fact is no one is actually trans. Human beings are a gonochoric species—fixed male or female for life. No quantity of hormones, pronouns, self ID, laws compelling people’s speech, threats made to people’s employment, or usurping of the rights of women, children, families, or gay and lesbian people, will make it true that people can change sex. And yet society—especially in Canada—goes along with it. When they do, it does not make it better. It is not kind. It is driving the social contagion even stronger. Trans identities are psychogenically constructed delusions. They are psychic retreats, adopted by people who are desperate to hide something from themselves. Mental illnesses are not identities. Pretending mental delusions are real is not a human right. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.
