Is Transgender Surgery Empowering?

I’m not in the business of telling editors what they should or should not publish. Nevertheless, for those seeking to normalize transgenderism, the recent New York magazine cover story “My Penis, Myself” — about the author’s completed female-to-male transgender surgery — was a curious choice.

The story, a first-person account by Gabriel Mac, recounts in gory detail the process of undergoing masculinizing surgery, after the author perceived the choice to be “penis or death.” It ought to be noted that this is not the first piece of this kind that Mac has penned. In 2011, when Mac was presenting as a woman and going by Mac McClelland, she wrote an article for the online magazine Good about partaking in a staged violent rape that supposedly cured her of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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I’m not in the business of telling editors what they should or should not publish. Nevertheless, for those seeking to normalize transgenderism, the recent New York magazine cover story “My Penis, Myself” — about the author’s completed female-to-male transgender surgery — was a curious choice.

The story, a first-person account by Gabriel Mac, recounts in gory detail the process of undergoing masculinizing surgery, after the author perceived the choice to be “penis or death.” It ought to be noted that this is not the first piece of this kind that Mac has penned. In 2011, when Mac was presenting as a woman and going by Mac McClelland, she wrote an article for the online magazine Good about partaking in a staged violent rape that supposedly cured her of post-traumatic stress disorder.