Not that I agree, but I like to think that as a progressive transgender advocate with a smattering of conservative, pro-life friends, it’s usually helpful to read what the opposition is thinking.
My interest waned when I saw the source: the arch-conservative, misogynist and homophobic online rag, The Daily Caller, which preceded Breitbart as the standard bearer of right-wing, anti-liberal biased reporting. This outfit, founded by FOX News anchor Tucker Carlson, is so biased, and so anti-everything we believe in, that you’re not going to find a hyperlink to their site here, nor to that opinion piece by a transgender woman named Theryn Meyer. But I will quote from it, and will explain why it’s important we know what she thinks. I have provided links to her social media, below.
Who is Theryn Meyer? She is a wanna-be Blaire White, an anti-feminist transgender personality on YouTube and Twitter who is uber-popular with more than 200-thousand right-wing followers.
Meyer is also a YouTuber with a right-wing perspective, a colorful history, and like White, drop-dead gorgeous looks. She boasts more than 7,000 followers on Twitter and 15,000 subscribers on YouTube.
When she attended Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was president of the Advocacy for Men and Boys club, a men’s rights activist group. A profile in Daily Xtra identified her as 21, a native of South Africa, and at the time of publication in January, she was studying musical composition. She advocates against feminism, labeling herself an “afeminist:”
“I don’t like feminism constructing a trans identity around victimhood,” she told Daily Xtra.
“I used to be a feminist, and I was a fucking wreck. I was eating up everything that feminism fed to me: that the world was out to get me, that the world was structured to not accommodate me. And of course that’s true to some extent, but it was the constant harping about it, and the idea that you can never do anything about it as an individual. When I finally turned my back on all that stuff and I started realizing the strength I have as an individual, that’s when I started becoming strong as a trans woman.”
“I decided I was done” with feminism, she said, when protesters demanding gender-neutral bathrooms at her university only occupied men’s rest rooms on campus. She’s since become a darling of the MRA movement.
And as expressed in her op-ed, Meyer believes the LGBTQ community has been led astray and that to truly secure our rights we must turn our backs on left-wing liberalism and embrace conservative politics.
Yes, I know. It’s a lot all at once. Take a moment.
If it were not for her politics, Meyer might appear to have a lot in common with transgender people all around the world. She wrote:
“Growing up a gender-atypical child in the politically broken and culturally fragmented country of South Africa, social acceptance and even basic tolerance was often hard to come by. Dealing with the growing pains of adolescence as an unworldly teenager is challenging enough. But doing so in the lonely corner after being shunned by everyone in the room – your family, your friends, your community, your tribe – can make life for a queer kid seem unbearable at times.”
Meyer writes that she felt welcomed by liberals, “as long as I parroted the leftist script of big government, open borders, gun control, and the insidious subversion of Western values.” She claims she was “booted” and “expelled” for her “oft-contrary views.”
Honestly, I don’t remember voting her off the island, but that’s her story and she’s sticking to it. So why is she conservative? She explained in her op-ed:
“I certainly do hold these political convictions in part because conservatives seem to be the only ones who care about the mass importation of rabidly anti-LGBT cultures; and also because they seem to be alone in their concern for gay and trans people’s right to self-defense.”
Oh, okay, so she’s anti-immigration and pro-guns. Got it.
And here is where she finally gets to the meat of her misaligned mindset against liberalism. This is where the self-proclaimed “tranny” — my first clue that she’s not one of the #girlslikeus — goes off the tracks:
“Characteristic of the left is to spew incessant streams of demands for the inclusion of, and the affording of various entitlements to, sexual minorities. They claim by fiat things like same-sex marriage and the use of washrooms that correspond to a person’s gender identity, to be ‘fundamental human rights.’ But what is not quite as characteristic is to bring up, or acknowledge the existence of, any responsibilities that LGBT minorities may have to the society in which they seek tolerance and integration.
“As a trans person, I recognize that I am an abnormality; an anomaly that makes up a minute fraction of the population. In a sense, I am an ‘outsider.'”
As president-elect Donald Trump was fond of saying during the campaign:
“Wrong.”
“Sad.”
What transgender people seek, like lesbians, gays, bisexuals and all queer people, is not “tolerance.” We seek — no, we demand — full acceptance with equal rights under the law. Meyer writes that we lack patience, and that our complaints of abuse are dangerous, and will reap us nothing. In fact, in her extreme right-wing conservative closing argument, she promises there will be retribution for making waves:
“Eventually, once tolerant people will become fed up with their continued demonization and the systematic overthrow of their culture by a small minority of moral elites, and they will lash back with genuine intolerance – which is why the LGBT community is its own worst enemy.
“So, my fellow faggots, dykes, and trannies, I urge you to reconsider your position as political pawns in the left’s nihilistic agenda; I recommend you abandon your authoritarian efforts to re-engineer a populace; and I instead invite you to join me and other conservatives on the front lines in defense of western civilization, to preserve the institutions and traditions that have brought about this prosperous society and, in turn, guaranteed you the freedom to be who you are.”
There, in sum, is her case for why the LGBTQ community needs to abandon what she called “Mother Left.” Meyer suggests the only way for us 9 million American citizens who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to be “guaranteed” the freedom to be who we are is to join her “on the front lines.”
Wait, just a minute. I seem to recall there being another way we are guaranteed our freedom, our rights, after a long ago war that repelled oppressors, established liberty and threw off the chains of authoritarian rule.
Here, I provided a link of the document, a copy of which I carry in my purse. Just in case it comes in handy over the next four years.
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