The duty of truth tellers

Sometimes it’s women who demonstrate greater fortitude in denouncing the deep delusion overtaking our culture on the meaning of male and female. It has been strong, confident women such as J.K. Rowling, Chloe Cole, Riley Gaines, Kellie-Jay Keen, Allie Beth Stuckey, Katy Faust, and Megyn Kelly who have made unflinching, reasoned stands for the clear objectivity of basic biology. Add to this list 27-year-old White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The Washington Post reports “The White House’s top spokesperson said she will not engage with reporters who list their pronouns in their email signatures.” Journalists who’ve bent the knee to the dictates of fictitious gender ideology have gotten this response from Leavitt’s team: “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.”

Her reasoning?

In a statement to the Post, Leavitt boldly explained, “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.” The New York Times stated three of its reporters were denied responses from the White House over this new policy.

Cheers for Mrs. Leavitt.

Here are three reasons why this policy is wholly rational and praiseworthy.

It’s a return to reality. Leavitt is simply following the sanity of her boss who upended gender ideology within hours of his second inauguration stating, “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”

This served as an existential corrective to the gender madness that says we may not discern anyone’s sex without them declaring it. This was never a thing until it suddenly became one out of thin air in the last millisecond of human history. It’s an illusion sustained by untruth and bullying.

Even Anderson Cooper, a very with-it celebrated gay icon, got stung by this performance art recently in his CNN town hall with Bernie Sanders. Innocently introducing a female audience member to ask her question, the woman publicly corrected Cooper by explaining she went by “they/them pronouns, actually.” Cooper responded to her corrective with an unapologetic, unimpressed “Oh.”

Even The Washington Post noted the political problems inherent in such corrections, explaining how the recent Trans Visibility Day was now “a moment of reckoning” for Democrats where “tensions remain high” because progressives are increasingly appreciating how damaging trans visibility is in contrast to Trump’s effort of “restoring what he called common sense.” It seems Anderson Cooper is now in those ranks.

Karoline Leavitt refuses to assist journalists in sullying their vocation by signaling their professional allegiance to a baseless, partisan dogma.

Gender pronouns are an on-ramp catechesis in pagan faith. The regular pressure put upon all of us to include so-called “gender pronouns” on our name badges, work email signatures, and state them in introductions at conferences, not to mention dutifully apologize if we ever “misgender” someone is not about innocent neighborly kindnesses.

They are on-boarding catechisms in a made-up pagan religion that challenges basic biology and God’s universally accepted design for humanity as male and female.

Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright explained in The Wall Street Journal a few years ago,

Coercing people into publicly stating their pronouns in the name of “inclusion” is a Trojan horse that empowers gender ideology and expands its reach. It is the thin end of the gender activists’ wedge designed to normalize their worldview. Participating in pronoun rituals makes you complicit in gender ideology’s regressive belief system, thereby legitimizing it.

Every reasonable person must conscientiously object. Wright explains it’s akin to dutifully stating you are a Pisces in your name badge or email signature, “To respond with your own star sign would be to operate within and signal your tacit agreement with the belief system of astrology.” Gender ideology is to biology and a fact-based worldview what astrology is to astronomy. Karoline Leavitt’s new policy simply notes this fact and refuses to play along. Professional journalists who play the game are doubly culpable.

Shame on any journalist weakly virtue-signaling their participation in the deception. Karoline Leavitt sees truly and is confident enough to say so.

Recovering cultural sanity demands we all do the same.