A Heresy for Our Times

Welcome to the Middle Ages.

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LGBT activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018.

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Have you ever stopped and asked yourself: How, in the year 2023, did humans begin to debate propositions like “Can men become women?” How can a society that invents vaccines and sends vehicles to other planets start to doubt the sexual dimorphism of humanity? Or begin to wonder whether our children were routinely “born into the wrong bodies”?

How did these questions not just arise, but seize the cultural heights, become the day-to-day obsession of all opinion-formers and tastemakers? How could anyone take seriously the “scholarship” that purports to find support for modern transgender equality in the life of Roman emperor and sex degenerate Elagabalus?

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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