Leftism Conflicts With Religion Because It Is A Religion

Is it possible for a man to be trapped in a woman’s body? Or to be more inclusive, can a person be trapped in the wrong body? What exactly does that mean? People say it all the time and it’s rarely challenged as if it presumes something we all understand and accept as possible.

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But it presumes that person and body are two separate things. Are they? If so where is this thing we call “person” in relation to the body? When does it get inserted or trapped in the body? When we die, where does this “person” portion go?

What’s happening when people say things like “trapped in the wrong body” is they are assuming a religious, or at least metaphysical, state of humanity akin to having a soul. That soul has a nature and can even have a gender that doesn’t match its physical body. This is not to say that gender dysphoria doesn’t exist or isn’t legitimate. It absolutely is. But the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) never uses religious language to describe gender dysphoria.

It may feel uncomfortable for people who don’t think of themselves as religious, but the entire framework for leftist (not necessarily liberal) orthodoxy has a theology. The reason so many leftists focus on and seem to detest religion is because they are religious warriors fighting a religious battle against Judeo-Christian principles.

The Social Construction

You may have heard the term “social construction”. It’s usually used with a “First of all…” as people begin to describe gender because it’s foundational. But it’s also used to describe every aspect of human culture. And it’s true, to a point.

Think of money, we place varied values on pieces of paper. Knowing this, nobody is going to trash their paper money because it’s tied to an underlying reality that reflects our labor and what we acquire with that labor. Gender is similar in that we have varying cultural expectations around gender, but it’s still tied to the underlying reality of our different biology. No matter how our culture changes, men will never be able to give birth, much less get pregnant.

But any quick look at the nature of leftist ideology will reveal that the way they are using the term “social construction” presumes no connection between how we experience culture and any underlying reality. When they say, “social construction”, they mean “we made it up arbitrarily as a way to keep the powerful in power and oppress the weak in a cultural prison they are unaware of.”

• Modern feminism presumes that gender roles aren’t tied to any underlying reality in biology but are created arbitrarily to allow men to oppress women.

• Critical Race Theory (CRT) presumes race isn’t tied to any underlying reality but arbitrarily created to allow “whiteness” to oppress anyone not white.

• Queer theory (sometimes called “transgenderism”) presumes heteronormativity (heterosexual being the norm) isn’t tied to any underlying reality but arbitrarily created to oppress anyone not heterosexual.

• Intersectionality takes all of these power dynamics and adds them into one combined manner of seeing how power multiplies against the marginalized.

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)

Regardless of how much you think any or all of these assumptions to be true about humanity, they all presume that there is no underlying reality reflected in how these ideas manifest in culture. That’s why people forcefully say, almost as a litmus test for ideological purity, “Trans women are women.”

For trans women to be women, you would have to presume that the category “woman” wasn’t tied to any underlying biological reality which would restrict some people from occupying that category. You’d have to assume that “woman” is a social construction without any real boundaries but those arbitrarily created by human minds.

Now if you read that statement and said, “Absolutely it is arbitrarily created!” or you said the opposite, is a different discussion. Important here is to understand that the roots of leftist dogma require this detachment of human categorization from any underlying reality. It requires the presumption that human nature is something created by humanity and can be changed based on social structures, not at all tied to any biology.

This is the root of the conflict.

The Conflict

A Judeo-Christian concept of humanity is that we are all created in the image of God. It assumes that all humans have a nature tied to the reality of Being itself and not simply created in the mind of humans. Although we have diverse cultures and people in those cultures, who we are is and will always be tied to objective truths about the world, nature, and our biology, outside of our control.

Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

The entire American experiment presumes that humans have a nature. Our institutions and governance framework are created as a measure against the destructive parts of our nature and encourage its positive aspects. The entire Declaration of Independence and the Constitution become null and void without first presuming human beings have a nature.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” — Declaration of Independence

Translation: ‘After hundreds of years of observation, we have an idea of how people are. We are starting with that assumption and creating a nation based on that assumption.’

It assumes this foundation and moves on to generate a nation based on that metaphysical principle.  One group sees humans as made in the image of God, and the other sees humans as made in their own image. 

This is a deep religious conflict. Not simply a political battle.