If transgendered people are merely human, their case is lost. Human beings are classifiable, without exception, into one of two biological sexes: male or female. Transgendered people are no less sexually classifiable than the rest of humankind. They do not control their sexual classification any more than they control any other element of their DNA

The meaning of “is” is distinct from the meaning of “feels”…or “identifies”…or “expresses.” That which is, is. That which could be, should be, or in a perfect world would be, but isn’t, is not.

If it’s all a free and fluid nonbinary choice of gender and sexual partners, a choice to have sex exclusively with the same sex would not be an expression of our identity, but a form of sexist bigotry, would it not?

According to the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

Theories are falsifiable beliefs that are logically analyzed and empirically tested to determine their validity. If a theory doesn’t hold up, it’s either revised or abandoned altogether. Axioms, on the other hand, are systemic starting points; they are methodological givens.

The surest sign of a decadent culture isn’t its readiness to license varieties of personal abuse and degradation, or even its elevation of immediate pleasure over long-term sobriety. The surest sign of cultural decadence is a readiness to reject as hateful what is demonstrably true.

Sexual classification is not something you get to decide, as desperately as you may wish it were. There is no natural right to overrule reality. You are what you are. Nothing more and nothing less.

The keynote, indeed the only note, of the 1619 Project is that racism is the story behind every story.

Asian kids, as a matter of fact, are roughly as likely to come from low-income households as are black or Hispanic kids.