Gender dysphoria is so yesterday! According
to The Daily Mail, a youngster in Britain has been officially allowed to
identify as a wolf. Officials say the secondary-school student is suffering
from 'species dysphoria,’ which occurs when someone believes they aren’t truly human
and instead belong to a different animal species. Voila, welcome to the trans-specied community!
As
you might well guess, teachers are said to be ‘supporting’ the pupil, who
authorities say belongs to a group called ‘furries.’
Oddly
enough (okay, not really), species dysphoria is becoming ever more common--
along with all the other dysphorias—in an age when it seems nearly everyone
wants to identify as something they aren’t and can never be. (I myself sometimes
identify as a 6’ 4” 27-year-old Chippendale dancer named Lance.)
We
are told that increasing numbers of schoolchildren are taking on the
personalities and identities of creatures from cats and dogs to birds and
snakes. Apparently, a few even claim to be dragons or dinosaurs.
Well,
that should make for interesting classrooms. And locker-rooms. What could go
wrong? Cats and dogs, mongooses and cobras. Oppressors and the oppressed. Just
what we need, more division and chaos in hallways, schools, and society in
general.
Dictionaries
state that dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. That’s as may be, but it is
certain that it is exacerbated (if not created) by the dismissal of
standards, consequences, religion…and objective truth.
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