By Don Frost
In a democracy, the majority rules. Even little kids know that. When playing sandlot baseball they settle disputes by the majority rule. That used to be a founding principle at the very core of the American republic. No longer. We have entered a new era, the dictatorship of the minority.
Recently I was asked to update my medical records with my primary care doctor. It was pretty routine stuff – name, age, marital status, emergency contacts, etc. Then I came to a multiple-choice question that set my head spinning. The form requested that I specify my gender. My choices were male, female, and unknown.
What is happening to the country? To the world? Seriously, “unknown”?! This was a no-nonsense questionnaire. It was not a joke. If more proof was needed, that questionnaire dispelled it: We’re living in a world gone mad!
Yes, I am well aware of LGTBQIA2S+: lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and more, all under the umbrella term “the identity movement.”
Oh, come on! If you have a penis, you’re a boy; if you have a vagina, you’re a girl; if you have both, you’re a hermaphrodite.
If you discover later in life that you don’t like the sex you were born with, that you’d rather be the other sex or that you prefer to have your sexual desires met by one of your own sex, that’s your personal issue. If you’re a girl and wake up one morning and feel like being a boy, that, too, is your personal issue. If you feel like being a girl again the next morning, that, too, is your personal issue. Why drag 97% of the rest of the world into it? You’re part of a minority. Get used to it.
The “unknown” choice on my medical questionnaire was an unconscionable pandering to “the identity movement”; to people confused about which sex they want to be from one moment to the next. Heaven forbid that they be faced with a mere two choices on a medical form. They might be “offended.” They certainly can’t be expected to roll with it; to make whatever mental adjustments are required. Instead, they insist the entire world – the majority – must make the adjustments.
Persecute these people? Of course not! Publicly ridicule them, humiliate them? A vile thing to do! Shun them? A heartless, pointless thing! Stone them? A cold-blooded, wicked idea! Yes, there are cretins who would do those very things. Still, must the world jump through hoops to appease the minority? More important, will all such appeasement teach mental defectives basic decency, common humanity? There will be ice cream parlors in hell before that happens.
All of this – “unknown sex,” “sex ambiguity,” etc. – would be easily dismissed with an eye roll and shake of the head but for one thing: The dictatorship of the minority is dragging government into areas where it has no business being, some providing actual punishments for those unwilling to pander to such “politically correct” nonsense.
Senate Bill 219 in California would have literally jailed nursing home employees for up to a year if they habitually used the wrong pronouns. It wasn’t for calling a man “her” or a woman “he.” It was for failing to pluralize them; for not referring to individual men and women as “they, them, their.” Under Bill 219, that would officially be a “crime” called “misgendering.”
The radicals in “the identity movement” would have the world believe that such terms as “men” and “women” are artificial constructs; that there really are no such things as men and women; that all humans are neutered, ie., nothing. Nonsense like that has given rise to such idiotic phrasing as “person with a uterus” instead of “woman.”
Dr. Michelle Morse, New York City’s chief medical officer, was taken to task for referring to Hispanic and black women as “mothers.” What’s that? you say. What’s wrong with that? Well, perhaps you need to have your consciousness raised, for it was her practice to refer to white women as “birthing people.” That damn near cost Morse her job. It appears, if only for the moment, her apology for “inadvertently gendering black and Puerto Rican birthing people” kept her on the city payroll.
The dictatorship of the minority comes under the heading of people telling other people what to do, say, think, and believe with all their hearts and souls. It affects even children.
Colorado recently passed a law that says it’s perfectly all right – that is, it’s no longer illegal – for children to play and walk outside without parental supervision. It wasn’t all that long ago that children routinely walked and played outside without some adult hovering nearby.
Colorado found it necessary to pass such a law because under a previous law parents were being accused of neglect if their kids walked or played alone outside. That law resulted in 221,000 calls to the state’s child abuse hotline in 2021, most filed by alert neighbors to report children playing or simply walking to school alone.
It’s a mad, mad world and it’s being driven by the minority while the majority cowers in terror of “offending.”