The sexual absurdity of post-America

Great Mona Charen column at Townhall this morning on the rapid deterioration of society's understanding of masculinity and femininity - and the issues that arise from that, such as the indulgence of whims in children that they wouldn't have if the culture wasn't saturating their minds with them, as well the indulgence of people who have turned their gender identities into grotesque self-inventions and then decide they want to become parents.  Take this example:

The New York Times brings us the "next frontier in fertility treatment." It's about dissolving the prejudice against transgender people having children. "Andy Inkster, a transgender man, had always wanted biological children. So when he embarked on the transition from female to male at age 18 -- changing his name, taking testosterone and eventually undergoing surgery to remove his breasts -- he left his female reproductive organs intact. In his mid-20s, he decided it was time. He stopped taking testosterone and started trying to get pregnant."

Baystate Reproductive Medicine turned Inkster away, explaining that it didn't have enough experience with transgender people to provide the hormones and donor sperm required. "Mr. Inkster eventually found another clinic that helped him conceive via in vitro fertilization and donor sperm, and in October 2010, he gave birth to a daughter, Elise. A month later, he sued Baystate for sexual discrimination." The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination agrees with Inkster.

Again, this hits home, and I may go local in a post later today.  The community foundation in our city is going to give out grants for the second year in a row to groups undertaking projects designed to make ours a more "welcoming community."  Based on the public remarks about it by foundation officials so far, it looks like there's going to be increasing emphasis on LBGTQ outreach.

What arrogance - assuming we have the ability and right to determine our own sexual identity and even change our minds - perhaps only partially, only enough to still claim maternal yearnings, as in the case of Mr. (?) Inkster.

It is so very late in the day.