In light of the Brigitte Macron scandal Candace Owens is taking heat for, I am reminded of an American trans icon, Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner. In his documentary, Untold, he talks about growing up feeling lots of inner confusion and pain, and using sports as an escape from it all. It worked, and he became one of the greatest athletes in the world. But when the sports ended, the emptiness he felt inside was still there. No amount of fame, fortune, or even a loving family (or 3!) could make it go away. Thus, as a last resort, Bruce sought relief from his identity issues by abandoning his identity all together, what he calls the “character” of Bruce Jenner. He then becomes “Caitlyn” and makes every effort to leave manhood behind in the hopes of a better life as a woman. The documentary clearly shows in Bruce’s own words that it didn’t work. His journey, fueled by a deep sense of shame, amounted to nothing but more pain and confusion.

The radical leftist narrative circling in America is that transgenderism is the answer to happiness and inner peace for many people with similar inner confusion, even children. They argue, with no evidence, that 1) transitioning makes people happier, 2) transitioning is safe long-term, and 3) there are no harmful side effects of transitioning children or adults despite the lack of research on the process and the fact that it is completely irreversible.

Transgenderism as a socially acceptable expression of shame is fairly new to the world, only popping up about 100 years ago in Germany. Magnus Hirschfeld, the German institute’s founder, was the first to use the terms “transsexual” and “transvestite.” In 1931 the first sex reassignment surgery was offered, not because it was empirically sound, but rather because it was believed to prevent suicide among transsexual clients of the institute. The people who received gender reassignment surgery at the German institute were not patients, they were test subjects. One professor at the institute stated:

“Although experimental and, ultimately, dangerous, these sex-reassignment procedures were developed largely in response to the ardent requests of patients.”

In what other area of medicine would we perform extremely risky surgery with no empirical backing at the request of mentally ill patients (people who were already harming themselves) and call it justice? Would we remove someone’s limbs because they don’t want them anymore and are threatening to kill themself? I’m not sure which was more true: that Hirschfeld and company were possessed by an ungodly desire to deconstruct womanhood and manhood, as a precursor to eugenics and population control maybe, or that they were simply uneducated on the nature of psychological confusion and how to resolve it. Probably both.

And then there’s this, about homosexuality:

The researchers at the institute advocated the theory that homosexuality had an innate, biological origin. Working off of the research of Eugen Steinach, who had recently succeeded in reversing the sexual behavior of animal test subjects, Steinach’s Institute for Experimental Biology once tested whether or not transplanting the testicles from a heterosexual man to a homosexual man would cure homosexuality. This method of “curing” homosexuality more often than not grew necrotized and resulted in the testicles having to be castrated. The practice was abandoned by 1924. Hirschfeld, who initially supported some of these experiments, questioned whether such practices were medically ethical, and was concerned with the potential they could have for reducing the diversity of natural human phenomena. However, it was considered a potential alternative to self-castration that had previously been performed by some homosexual men. Hirschfeld – who was homosexual himself – viewed homosexuality as natural and inborn, rather than an illness. The experiments were in fact intended to demonstrate the biological basis of homosexuality in the influence of sex hormones.

Does a man performing self-castration, or self-harm of any kind, sound like someone who is of sound mind and mentally competent enough to be volunteering their body for morally reprehensible experimental surgery? These men were victims, first to their internalized toxic shame, and second to the “scientists” like Hirschfeld and Steinach who treated them like lab rats. It doesn’t help that Hirschfeld’s bias interfered with the experiment; being gay himself, he couldn’t see it as an illness and was forced for his reputation’s sake to label all sexual confusion as innate.

My point is really that there is no ethical way to validate transgenderism, including with surgery and experimental synthetic puberty blockers and sex hormones. I believe it is just a more extreme form of shame on the scale of homosexuality, with a “queer” or gay identity and cross-dressing sitting at the beginning. All are fueled by shame and denial of the self.

Anyone who on their own volition identifies as the opposite gender, to the degree that they desire to defy biology, is deeply troubled by shame. Transgenderism and the other letters of the homosexual alphabet are all disturbing manifestations of toxic shame. This kind of shame is so strong that the only illusion of relief they can get is by abandoning fundamental parts of themself (their manhood or womanhood). The men chopped off their testicles not because they just needed to be women and God or the evolutionary mind or whoever made a mistake. They did it because they were ashamed to be men, very likely due to weak, abusive or toxic parental influence. The story is still the same today. It’s the same in Bruce Jenner’s case. These people are victims too, to broken families and “scientific” systems that are coddling them with the dangerous lie that being trans is normal and healthy in any way.

LGBTQ+ scholar Genny Beemyn is wrong; gay history and transgender history are closely interwoven as they all sit on the same spectrum of sexual manifestations of toxic internalized shame. And the solution is all the same. These people believe something is wrong with them, but that’s not true. “LGBTQ allies” and medical professionals supporting them are lying! There is nothing wrong with you except that you are running from the pain you feel inside and it’s catching up with you. It expresses itself as your need to either abandon your gender or abandon any desire to have a relationship with the opposite sex. These desires are completely abnormal and fueled by the shame, pain and rejection you feel inside. I guarantee if you deal with that pain BEFORE any attempts to change anything about yourself on the outside, you will not have those desires anymore. It takes a lot of courage to look within and deal with the pain you feel instead of masking it with surgery and labels and changing your name. It is a long process of healing and not easy by any means. Most people don’t have that courage and they don’t have the support they need to face the pain. But, doing so will save you years of greater confusion and regret you will experience if you keep avoiding it.

Face and feel your pain now, or it will catch up with you. Maybe not right away, but years or even decades from now, it will just get worse, no matter what external relief you seek. The only healing you will ever experience is in your mind and heart, not in changing the physical.

In the words of the late Charlie Kirk speaking to a transgender student, “With the right [support] and the right people, you don’t have to wage war on your body, you can learn to love your body.”