Sorry, progressives: There is no ‘trans community’By Rich Lowry
April 3, 2023
“Community” is one of those words that have been hijacked and ruined, like “preferred,” “appropriation” and “equity,” among many others.
In the wake of the Nashville shooting, we heard much about the aftershocks that affected the “trans community.”
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There has been a proliferation of ersatz communities in recent years, typically marching under the collective banner of “marginalized communities.”
In an entry on “communities of color,” the website of the Human Rights Campaign captured the prevailing usage perfectly: “People of color who are also LGBTQ+ face a unique set of challenges based on their experience at the intersection of two marginalized communities in our society.”
This ideological use of the word “community” has very little or no connection to the actual phenomenon, which involves a discrete set of people, often living in proximity, who share common practices, values and norms.
The great German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies defined community as“an organic, natural kind of social group whose members are bound together by a sense of belonging created out of everyday contacts covering the whole range of human activities.”
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There are genuine, longstanding gay communities in neighborhoods of American cities.
But there is no overarching trans community any more than there’s a white, African-American, left-handed or red-headed community.
It’s manifestly absurd to consider a disparate group of people constituting fewer than 0.5% of the population spread out across the entirety of the country — from diverse walks of life and in different situations regarding their trans status — a community.
Regarding their status, according to a recent Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation study, some of these people may just wear the clothes of the other sex; some may have had hormone treatments or surgical procedures; some may identify in public as trans all the time, some occasionally, some never at all; some, in fact many, may not even refer to themselves as trans.
It’s even more preposterous to speak of an LGBTQ community.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/sorry-progressives-there-is-no-trans-community/
