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Ironically, Mr. Bono’s introspective interviews and books, chronicling his life-long emotional turmoil and angst, belie the fact that there is very little emotional change from the tormented lesbian of yesterday to the now confused transgendered half-male/half-female who adopts the most arcane gender stereotypes while attempting to be a champion of a new gender identity. The confusion here is almost dizzying.

After decades of liberals peddling the idea that gender doesn’t matter and is just a “social construct” suddenly we are told by these same liberals like Mr. Bono that gender does matter to the point that the gender we are born in may not be satisfactory. Yet, if gender is just a social construct, as has been maintained for decades by feminists, why not change the “paradigm,” stay in the body one is born with and be happy?

The transgendered movement is ultimately based on the very premise that liberals have rejected for years. Feminists have argued that whether one is born male or female, one should be free to adopt whatever characteristics — either more feminine or more masculine—that one prefers. Hence, let girls be tomboys; let boys play with dolls. If that is the case, then why now also insist that “gender matters” — to the point that radical surgery and hormone treatments are sanctioned? This reveals that ultimately, there is no consistency in the assault on traditional gender roles. The goal is not to free individuals in any manner that is logically consistent, but to destroy the nuclear family altogether and create a new era in which individuals engage in a perpetual obsession with self, regardless of how this impacts the greater good.

The reality is that the transgender movement seeks to unleash a new round of experimentation with the human body in an attempt to increase pleasure — and break down the fundamental mores of Western Civilization. Mr. Bono revealed in the Letterman interview that indeed one of the biggest changes in his life has been going from a low sex drive as a woman to a heightened sex drive after the hormones were ingested and he became male.