The White House Has Fallen.
Trans Day of Visibility was given awestruck respect on Easter Sunday by Joe Biden. His embrace of the trans agenda is a disaster rooted in a deeply personal connection to trans activism and grief.
Everything in the West is suspect. Or evil. In case you haven’t noticed.
Our cities are built on slave labour. Our inventions stolen from someone else. A two spirit person of colour most likely.
We endanger the planet with our gender binary. Or our deplorable whiteness. By reflecting back heat. Or something.
The cops are secretly planning a genocide. Of black people.
Or the trans community. Or something.
Bizarre as it may seem, large chunks of the Democratic Party’s activist base increasingly appears to subscribe to this garbage. Sure, the details may differ from the mindset of the North Korean agents who lead an attack on the White House in the 2013 movie, Olympus Has Fallen, but the shared contempt for America’s way of life and her institutions is as visceral.
The movie’s byline ‘When Our Flag Falls, Our Nation Will Rise’ was widely criticised at the time as a populist encouragement of insurrection. Many observers referred to the movie in the aftermath of the attacks on the Capitol by crazed Trump supporters.
“When does Gerard Butler turn up?” asked the British comedian Mitch Benn. “I’ve got to say my first thought was ‘Olympus Has Fallen’,” offered OJ Simpson in a video post. “Where’s Gerard Butler?”
If this unforgiving populism is bubbling like lava under American political life it is astonishing how determined the Biden administration seems to be to stoke it. Perhaps Biden’s advisors calculate that if they encourage outrage on the Right the rising tide of popular revolt will force Democrat voters to hew to their aged candidate. That’s a high stakes gamble. One Hillary lost in spectacular fashion.
How else though to explain why Joe Biden insisted on such a performative and divisive signal as his Declaration on Transgender Day of Visibility?
This year this Blessed Day, hallowed be its name, happened to fall on the same day as Easter Sunday. This coincidence would probably have gone largely unremarked were it not for Joe Biden’s unerring ability to alienate the general public by making a fuss about it.
In a startlingly partisan Declaration on Easter Sunday he ranted, among other things, against attempts to limit gender affirming healthcare to children. You know the sort of “healthcare” that effectively leads to their sterilisation. Way to go, Joe!
Elsewhere in his Declaration (don’t you just love this pompous way to describe an actual press release) Biden boasted about his appointment of transgender figures to leading positions. There was no hint there is now one fewer of those appointees since the fool on the right of this photograph was arrested for stealing women’s luggage from airports.
The photograph was issued by the way, by the Biden administration to mark Bastille Day in Paris to which the two fruitloopies had been sent. To represent the United States. Yes, really. The reaction of the French who are famously unconcerned about biological sex, has gone unrecorded. A version of ‘Oooh la lah’, presumably.
That guy one on the left, Rachel Levine…in case you’re interested…. likes to dress as an Admiral in a skirt while knowing less about ships than the average American. He’s trans though and he supports child sterilisation. So hallowed be his name. Sorry her name.
While many, mainly on the political Right, complained that Biden’s Declaration allowed Easter to be overshadowed by a highly contested trans event, liberals responded with ridicule. They noisily pointed out that Trans Day of Visbility had been celebrated on March 31st since it was founded. It’s Easter that moves around.
This is true. As far as it goes.
A modicum of commonsense suggests however that these are hardly two events with an equivalent pedigree. One commemorates an event that 63% of the US population, who identify as Christian, consider sacred. Archaeological evidence suggests that rituals associated with this commemoration date from at least 1900 years ago. For Christians the day also happens to be associated with the most important personalities in all of Scripture….namely Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit; a billing that would tax the best casting agent. There are also walk on parts for legendary character actors, such as Mary Magdalene.
Unlike Transgender Day of Visibility the events of Easter Sunday have also resonated so profoundly in Western culture they’ve exercised the imagination of a who’s who of art. Here’s Titian’s attempt to make ….visible ….the encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ, from the National Gallery.
“Noli me tangere”, or touch me not, she is told by Jesus.
If only Biden had been given similar advice about Trans Day of Visibility. In contrast it was cooked up not in the olde worlde Holy Land but by a trans activist, Rachel Crandall who hails from that other, no doubt equally sacred place, Lansing in the State of Michigan. Blessed be its name. Here’s some mashed potatoes Rachel cooked up in the shape of breasts. A miracle of sorts.
And while the birth of Day of Visibility stretches back into the mists of American time, otherwise known as 2009, it didn’t really take off until around 2016.
So yes it’s 8 years versus 1900 years. Who’s counting?
Would it have been beyond the wit of the LGBTQ+ movement to shift their all-important Day of Visibility by a couple of days….or a week…to let Christians get on with their Easter celebrations? Apparently not.
It’s not even as if trans folks are notable for their invisibility under Biden. In October 2022 the President famously met up with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney who had by then spent the heroic total of …222 days…. “as a girl” to discuss the challenges of wearing make-up and “tucking”.
Or something.
In this highly publicised meeting with the leading American politician, Mulvaney complained that trans “lives have become political talking points”. Who’d a thunk it?
That sort of self-imploding logic runs through all the trans days of the calendar but nowhere more so than in the Day of Visibility. For what are we supposed to be celebrating on this sacred day anyway? You’ll be amazed to discover….