One of the most instructive things about living in Budapest this season has taught me is what it’s like to be in a society where people have not lost their moral minds over gender ideology. That is, you can still show them things that are becoming completely normalized in our decadent country, and watch them recoil in horror. This is the correct instinct; maybe it will encourage them to protect themselves and their children from this poisonous ideology. As I wrote the other day, the ruling party in Hungary has proposed a law that would ban propagandizing children and minors for LGBT ideology. The usual suspects are screaming haaaaaaaaaaaaate!, but they had better hope that the Hungarian people don’t pay attention to the insanity that is being normalized in America.

This is a direct and sustained attack on the family, carried out by institutional elites. Here are two new examples. Keep in mind that part of the gaslighting strategy of the Left is to pretend that these things are outlier examples, that things really aren’t as bad as that. Last night I had dinner here in Madrid, where I’ve just arrived for a book tour, with some Christian friends. They told me that they withdrew their children from an excellent school a couple of years ago when the school took it upon itself to propagandize the kids with gender ideology, and explicit sexual instruction — all without telling the parents. When institutional elites downplay the radicalism of this stuff, don’t believe them.

A reader of this blog is a librarian who is deep in the closet in the workplace — as a conservative. He sends along this rave review from Library Journal, the most important trade magazine, of a new book called The Natural Mother Of The Child: A Memoir Of Nonbinary Parenthood, by Krys Malcolm Belc. Belc is a female who presents as male (“transmasculine”). Here’s the capsule review:

This memoir and call to action centers on what it means to be a parent, when being a parent conflicts with your identity and sense of self. When Belc, who is nonbinary and transmasculine, finds out that he’s pregnant, he struggles deeply with his body and the reality of creating life. Belc’s experiences illuminate how female-centric our understanding of pregnancy is, and how that gendered perspective shapes the medical systems and legal processes individuals must go through during pregnancy and parenthood. The U.S. medical and legal systems are not designed to meet the needs of nonbinary parenthood; through detailed legal records and reflections on his experiences working with the state, Belc demonstrates why the system must be reformed.

This memoir is driven by Belc’s distinctive voice and worldview; it’s reflexive and extremely blunt. At times, his stream-of-consciousness style can be disorienting—but then, discovering, navigating, rediscovering, and renegotiating yourself and your place in a world that wasn’t built for you is also disorienting.

VERDICT A wholly unique memoir that will speak to readers navigating nonbinary parenthood, as well as those who seek to understand the limitations of the U.S. legal system when it comes to nonbinary and trans parenthood.—Siobhan Egan, Barrington P.L., RI

Belc’s experiences illuminate how female-centric our understanding of pregnancy is… . Do you not recognize how batsh*t crazy that statement is? But this is how many of our elites think. Librarians who curate collections will mainstream this book — which, if you look at its Amazon page, has been widely and well reviewed. Here are just two of the many rave quotes:

Note well that on Amazon.com, you can buy this memoir in which a female who considers herself a man writes about having given birth to a child, and been oppressed by a system that described her as the “mother,” when in fact (according to her) she is the child’s father. But you cannot buy Ryan T. Anderson’s sober critique of gender ideology. And, as I keep pointing out, if Amazon will not sell books like Anderson’s as part of its corporate policy — which it says it will not — these books will not be published, as publishers can’t afford to issue books that Amazon won’t sell. We are seeing morally insane books like Belc’s be published, but books that dissent are going to be marginalized and phased out.

And the government had nothing to do with it. This is what I mean by soft totalitarianism.

Keep your eye on the institutional gatekeepers — media people, publishers, and so forth. People like librarian Siobhan Egan are eager to dismantle the family and the civilization that depends on it. They do this by mainstreaming morally insane concepts like “pregnancy should not be female-centric.” I get really, really tired of people — including conservatives — who act like this is no big deal, that it’s only something on the extreme that’s not going to trouble Good People Like Us, and that those who are raising the alarm are hotheaded culture warriors. Do you not understand that if the Equality Act passes, there will be no way to stop this? The House Democrats have already passed it, and President Biden has said he would sign it. The only thing keeping it from being the law of the land is the fact that the Democrats don’t have a filibuster-proof Senate majority. That’s how close we are.

We are well on our way to creating a society in which normal people are treated as freaks and outlaws. The world knows what it believes, and it is confidently trying to educate your children. How about you? Do you know what you believe? Are you defending your children?

Meanwhile, look at this fully heterosexual instance of initiating children into sexual display:

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