{"id":4200,"date":"2009-05-15T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2009-05-15T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T19:03:08","slug":"transphobia-a-new-social-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/transphobia-a-new-social-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Transphobia, a new social disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transphobia could, I suppose, be the irrational fear of any number of things: transubstantiation; trans fatty acids; GM bringing back the Trans-Am. We all know that it\u2019s really the irrational fear of \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34888\" target=\"_blank\">gender variance in society<\/a>\u201d, <\/em>though<em>, <\/em>don&#8217;t we<em>. <\/em>I don\u2019t know about you, but I can scarcely bring myself to step outside my front door for fear of encountering rampant gender variance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The usual Episcopalians, Unitarians, and other left-leaning quasi-religious dubbed those who believe one is born either as a man or a woman harbingers of violence. Rabbi Steven Jacobs of Temple Kol Tikvah in Los Angeles warned against an apparent new social disease, \u201ctransphobia,\u201d which is \u201cthe fear of gender variance in society.\u201d The rabbi lamented: \u201cGender rigidity impacts all of us, even if we are not transgender. That belief that there are only two ways to be human leads to violence and oppression.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, evangelicals are now being recruited into this lunacy. Tony Campolo, although always a willing victim of political leftist fantasies to some degree, now seems to have gone completely off the deep end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJustice is love translated into social policy,\u201d Campolo insisted at the Human Rights Campaign Clergy Call press conference. \u201cThis [legislation] is a chance to practice that love.\u201d Previously expressing support for traditional marriage, and a popular speaker for evangelical conferences, Campolo appeared slightly uncomfortable surrounded by hard-line sexual identity activists, many of them seemingly post-operative transsexuals. Still, he soldiered on, asserting that supplementing federal hate crimes legislation with protection for \u201csexual orientation\u201d would not threaten free speech among the clergy, \u201cas long as [a sermon] does not promote violence.\u201d Campolo declared:\u00a0 \u201cWe evangelicals who have such a high view of scripture should want justice for gays, lesbians and transgendered persons.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transphobia could, I suppose, be the irrational fear of any number of things: transubstantiation; trans fatty acids; GM bringing back the Trans-Am. We all know that it\u2019s really the irrational fear of \u201cgender variance in society\u201d, though, don&#8217;t we. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/transphobia-a-new-social-disease\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,307],"tags":[2167,2267],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-homosexuality","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}