Is the fight for transgender rights and tolerance a sign of progress, or has this been done before?
According to social critic and professor Camille Paglia, "the transgender definition has become a kind of convenient label for young people who may simply feel alienated culturally for many other reasons."
Currently, it is estimated that around .6 percent of the adult population in the United States identify as transgender, but with the push for transgender normalization throughout the public school system and higher education institutions, it seems that this number is only projected to grow.
Young people aren't just being taught to tolerate those who identify as transgender, they are being bullied to use pronouns that represent a dizzying list of gender identities which only continues to grow, and are being indoctrinated by professors, instructors and the media.
Just take Minnesota Department of Education's new Transgender "toolkit."
According to nbcnews.com, "The 11-page "toolkit" includes guidelines for the use of proper pronouns and preferred names — suggesting that teachers stop using the term "boys and girls," and instead use "students" and "scholars" — and tackles the hot-button issue of access to restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with a student's gender identity. Authors propose single-user restrooms be available for any students who do not want to share a restroom with transgender and gender-nonconforming students."
Camille Paglia goes on to say "historically the movement toward androgyny occurs in the late phases in culture as a civilization is starting to unravel."
"The people who live in such periods, the late phase of culture, whether it's the Hellenistic Era, whether it's the Roman Empire, whether it's the Mauve Decade of Oscar Wilde in the 1890's, whether it's in Weimer, Germany. People who live in such times feel that they're very sophisticated, they're very cosmopolitan. Homosexuality, heterosexuality, so what? Anything goes. But from the perspective of historical distance, you can see that it's a culture that no longer believes in itself. And what you invariably get are people who are convinced of the power of heroic masculinity on the edges - whether they're the vandals and the huns - or whether they're the barbarians of ISIS. You see them starting to mass on the outsides of the culture. And that's what we have right now. There is a tremendous and rather terrifying disconnect between the infatuation with the transgender movements in our own culture and what's going on out there."
But why is this happening? Why, when a culture becomes great and prosperous, does it eventually atrophy and collapse?
In the 1960's, behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun created a mouse utopia; a 9-foot square metal pen with 4.5-foot-high sides. Each side had four groups of four vertical, wire mesh tunnels. Each tunnel gave access to nesting boxes, food and water. There was no shortage of food or resources, and no predators were present.
Initially, the population doubled every 55 days. By day 315, the population reached 620, after which point the population growth dropped markedly. The period between day 315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and in normal social behavior.
Calhoun found that most females, if they gave birth, neglected their maternal functions. They were less adept at building nests and eventually quit building nests at all. The decrease in nest-building was 68 percent. The males were found to be hypersexual and sexually deviant. The sexual deviancy exhibited itself in the form of homosexuality. Homosexuality is not uncommon in normal animal populations, but Calhoun found this behavior to be in excess of what was expected.
When the population became large, the males began to struggle for status. This struggle manifested itself in the form of fighting. The dominant males would often submit to sexual advances by subordinate males. Fighting among the subordinate males was also common.
The few secluded spaces housed a population Calhoun called, "the beautiful ones." The mice inside the space didn't breed or fight or do anything but eat and groom and sleep. When the population started declining the beautiful ones had completely lost touch with social behaviors, including having sex or caring for their young.
Calhoun called the collapse in social behavior "behavioral sink."
What does this tell us about our own destiny (or, population density)?
Perhaps overcrowding in human populations, combined with an overabundance in resources, results in "transgender mania," and is only a precursor to cultural collapse.