I “Identify” As Old Enough . . .

Sometimes, I get tired of having to earn money in order to pay taxes.

I’d like for the state to give me back some of the money I have earned that it has taken from me over the past several decades via the taxes that are styled “contributions” I’ve been forced to make to the Social Security grift. It’s a grift, of course, because once the money you are forced to “contribute” is “contributed,” it is spent. It is not saved away in a retirement account with your name on it, accruing interest. If you ever get any back, it will be in the form of a dole financed by the “contributions” of others. It’s an ugly truth (not many people like being on the dole) but it is no less true on account of the ugliness.

Anyhow, I’d like some of the money I have been forced to “contribute” back – even though I know it’s all gone. The problem is I’m not old enough to qualify for the dole. Well, I feel old enough to qualify. So ought that not be sufficient to qualify? I mean, follow the logic of what is styled the “transgender” movement. It claims that gender – a grammatical term rather than a biological one – is biologically fungible; i.e., that a man can literally become a woman in the biological sense if he believe he is a woman and this must be acknowledged as fact by other people and the state, too.

A mentally ill man named Amber DaSilva who styles himself a “her” is very affronted by the state of Kansas insisting that the biological (as opposed to grammatical) sex of people applying for or holding driver’s licenses be indicated on the license. He says ” . . . the state of Kansas functionally revoked driver’s licenses from its trans residents by invalidating any license that didn’t match a resident’s birth gender.”

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Well, I say my “birth age” does not match the birthdate indicated on my driver’s license. This is a profound injustice. I feel older than I actually am and my feelings ought to trump the facts . . . right? If not, why not? DaSilva is a male, biologically – just the same as I am my age. He may not be happy about having been not just born but conceived a male – with male chromosomes – just as I am not happy right now about being unable to qualify for the SS dole, so as to have some of the money I was forced to “contribute” given back to me; I have a property tax bill on my desk that I’d like to be able to pay with some of that money. Yet I am unable to collect SS because the “birth date” I was “assigned” at birth is taken as immutable. Why? More finely, why is it that I cannot claim to be older than my “assigned birth date”? Or – for that matter – younger?

Maybe I’d like to date high school girls again, even though it has been decades since I was high school age. That is just an arbitrary “assignment.” I feel 17 sometimes. If the state indulges “Amber” how can it not indulge the feelings of others?

How about I feel I was driving the speed limit, officer? Good luck with that.

“Kris Ritter, a trans woman unlucky enough to live under Kansas law, was pulled over on May 5th for driving with her headlights turned off in the rain according to Transitics. The officer that pulled her over didn’t believe her license was real, owing to its male gender marker, but seemed to leave without issuing any formal citation – that is, until Ritter got a letter stating she’d missed a court appearance for her charge of driving without a valid driver’s license. ”

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Kris – like Amber – isn’t a woman, man. He is a transvestite; i.e., a man who affects the manners of and wears the clothes of a woman. This is said not to insult, unless it is now the case that facts are insulting.

These males are no more female than I am old enough to qualify for the SS dole just yet. I must wait until my “assigned birth date” corresponds with the minimum actual age to qualify for the dole. I could dye my hair snow white, wear old man’s clothes and stoop/shuffle like an old man. It will not carry weight at the Social Security office – even if I show them the Depends I put on under my pants. Do males such as DaSilva and Kris actually believe they are females because they affect the manners and wear the clothes associated with femaleness? If they actually, seriously, do believe it then they are on the face of it mentally ill and seriously so. It is a serious delusion to believe you are not what you actually are, in terms of immutable biological facts. A male who believes he is literally female notwithstanding his male chromosomes and male equipment (even if withered by drugs or cosmetically altered by surgery) is a candidate for the rubber room rather than a driver’s license.

This statement will, of course, be construed as “hateful” or fearful (“phobic,” in the silly-talk of what is style the “trans community.”  It is nothing of the kind. It is merely a refusal to be delusional. As a libertarian/anarchist, I don’t have any issue with a man who wants to affect the manners of and dress like a woman, in the sense that it’s none of my business because – as such – he is not causing me any harm. Via con dios.

But he does seek to harm objective reality when he claims it is merely a matter of how one feels about it.

And that is extremely harmful.

Of course, all of this would be less harmful if we got the state out of the business of identifying – or mulcting  – anyone. Then men like Amber could go about their business in peace and men like myself would be free to not “contribute” and so have the money we earned as opposed to begging for money from the state.

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