Anti-gender movement not misinformed

THE EDITOR, Madam:

I AM writing with reference to the Letter of the Day of February 7, titled ‘Unmasking the anti-gender movement’. The clear regurgitating and long-overturned assumptions and speculations which characterise Mr Grant’s treatise is nothing more than this relentless ideological warfare, designed to confuse and befuddle the minds of the vulnerable.

It is deception of the highest order to make the claim that the movement which opposes the LGBTQ agenda is operating clandestinely, and that the ‘gains’ made by LGBTQ are so significant and game-changing that this antigender movement is forced to be expending enormous resources to erode its ‘advancements’.

Since anti-genderism is a traditional cultural and religious expression of this nation’s value system, we reject any attempt to paint it as an emerging phenomenon, and that it is opposed to progress. We are only shocked by the conviction of persons who claim that science is on the side of the gay community, yet they see nothing irrational with gender fluidity. Here is one example of the absurdity of gender fluidity: The government determines that, within the next 10 years there will be 500,000 childbearing women in the country, who are expected to give birth to an average of two children. However, during this period, a significant amount of these women decide to become trans.

Surely, the foregoing scenario does not require much to see the kind of disruption that would be done to government’s plans to provide more classroom spaces and other infrastructure for the projected one million children expected to be born in that period. It would also mean that other public policies, as they relate to the demographic of the sexes, would fall into disarray..

Consequently, we find it hard to ascribe sobriety and rationality to persons who believe the determination of one’s sex can be left to the subjective activity of the human mind, which is characterised by inherent weakness and frailties.

When Mr Grant qualifies who is struggling with dual identity by identifying the gay community, one is forced to wonder what was his motive for implying at the beginning of the paragraph that this malady of dual identity is a national phenomenon.

Mr Grant could not be more wrong than to believe that the anti-gender movement is rooted in conservative ideologies and fuelled by misinformation. Contrary to this refurbished and unproven speculation about what motivates and sustains the intransigent position of the anti-gender movement is the historically established truth of the immutability, the unchangeability, and the irreversibility of the sexes. Leading this affirmation is the word of God. CASHLEY BROWN cashleybrown@yahoo.com