This morning on WBBM Chicago radio, I heard a Ted Cruz ad. No, I didn’t barf because I had been fasting and on my way for a blood sugar test, hence my stomach was empty.
It was the most vicious political ad I had ever heard in my life, including the 1964 Johnson mushroom cloud ad. Cruz (in a REALLY sinister voice) says that Trump supports letting full grown men enter you daughter’s bathroom because he feels like a woman that day. It says that about three different ways.
I can hardly believe that the Transgender rights laws do that. Still, I’m taken aback by talk of gender identity, rather than gender. Saying someone identifies as a woman rather than is a woman lends credence to Cruz’ ad.
I had always thought that transgender referred to sex change operations like Christine Jorgenson and more recently the former Chastity Bono, Bruce Jenner, and Bradley Manning. I did not think that transgender referred to simple cross dressing. Indeed, Cruz implies that a mere statement without even cross dressing is all that is required.
So here’s my question and it is sincere. What does transgender mean? Is there a range of meanings? Why do we use euphemism’s like “gender identity” which are ambiguous like “undocumented immigrant”? Could Cruz be horribly correct? Say it’s not so!
