(LifeSiteNews) — My favorite conspiracy theory – because I invented it myself – is that there is a phalanx of editors within the mainstream media commissioning human interest stories from trans activists for the sole purpose of undermining public support for the LGBT agenda, a conservative fifth column deep within the media matrix.
That, at least, is the best theory I can come up with for why the UK Metro – the free newspaper available on public transit – has been publishing a string of stories that seem deliberately designed to provoke a combination of disbelief, chortling, and disgust.
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Exhibit A is a story published on September 14 by Katie Neeves, a trans-identifying man. The title: “I had to wait 7 years for a vagina – now I feel complete.” It is part of Metro’s “Pride and Joy” series, which involves “affirming and joyful stories of transgender, non-binary, gender fluid and gender non-conforming people,” such as that time Neeves got his vagina.
This was published on the heels of a story just last month, which features the exquisite agony of a “non-binary” father who came to the crushing realization that he would be misgendered by his newborn twins, and that every time he heard “daddy” he would be confronted with the heteronormative, binary nature of our society. That one was so funny that even JK Rowling couldn’t help mocking it.
Neeves’ column begins thusly: “‘Picture a magician pulling a string of scarves out of a hat.’ That’s what one of the nurses said to try and calm my nerves about having my vaginal pack – a two-meter-long ribbon of gauze to absorb blood from my newly designed genitalia – removed.”
Yes. A trans activist actually wrote that, submitted it, and an editor approved it. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. Neeves was describing his “lower gender-reassignment surgery” in July, which involves castration and surgery to create a “neovagina.” With that scintillating lede, Neeves informs the reader that he has “always felt female,” which is why he cross-dressed as a child.
I’ve always found it interesting that so many have found this sort of assertion so compelling; if you are not female, how can you know what it means to “feel female”? You might feel how you imagine a female feels, but it is physiologically impossible to know that you “feel female” if you are male. Being female isn’t a “feeling.” The assertion is dead on arrival. But because of “transphobia,” Neeves writes, he had to “suppress” his “femininity.”
He continued to cross-dress through two marriages, he said, because it gave him “a feeling of gender euphoria,” but in 2018 stated: “I couldn’t suppress it any longer so I took the plunge to reveal Katie to the world.” He made a “coming out video,” telling everyone that “I had accepted myself to be transgender and that my transition would be unapologetically bold and very public.” At that point, the U.K. was at the height of the transgender moment, and so the timing seemed right, of course. Neeves could expect affirmation of his identity to be backed by force of law.
Neeves says his decision was greeted with much support, and that his “daughter was absolutely amazing and had no trouble accepting me.” He started taking estrogen to reduce his testosterone, and “taking hair loss medication to reverse male patterned baldness.” He then purchased some breasts, which “really boosted my self-esteem,” and legally changed his name to Katie. He is now dating a (presumably very confused) lesbian who, despite the fact that he hadn’t been castrated yet, “accepted me totally as the woman I am.”
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The rest of Neeves’ column discusses his journey to get the “surgery to make my body fully match my internal female self,” which was, he writes, a “nightmare.” The castration and subsequent surgery, he said, gave him “euphoria,” and he “vlogged my hospital stay in a series of five videos that I posted across social media, as well as on my trans advocacy page, Cool2BTrans.”
Since the surgery, he has been in a lot of pain and has to “dilate” for two hours a day. He doesn’t mention why: because his body treats the “neovagina” as the literal wound that it is and attempts to heal it. He will have to do this regularly for the rest of his life. For all of his “euphoria,” the “Cool2BTrans” guy isn’t being quite honest about the miserable journey ahead for those who mutilate themselves this way; for a gut-wrenching description of what that is like, listen to my LifeSiteNews interview with Scott Newgent, who underwent the same surgeries and has been suffering profoundly ever since.
Many trans activists, it turns out, are still living in 2018, when transgenderism was still considered to be the next great civil rights cause. But columns like this do not actually accomplish what Neeves (and the editor?) think they do. Most people read the story of a confused man opting for castration and do not come to the conclusion that transgender ideology should be mainstreamed. Instead, we feel horror and, when we are at our best, pity.
