The construct “authentic self” betrays the religious character of queer ideology. In the queer religion, the authentic self refers to the notion of a gendered soul. According to queer doctrine, during ensoulment, which occurs at some point in utero, the authentic self may enter the wrong body, i.e, a body that will be assigned at birth a sex incongruent with that of the authentic self. Upon discovering the error, the congregant himself, or his parents, teachers, counselors, or other congregants, seek out a cleric (a doctor of some sort), and, through a ritual process, often involving powerful potions and sharp knives, release the authentic self.
This religion is particularly aggressive in its expectations of others who are, even if not adherents of it, expected to accept its doctrines and embrace its rituals—or at least act in bad faith and remain silent. This religion is furthermore unique among religions, at least in the West, in that it enjoys a considerable degree of state support and, by extension, corporate buy-in. In this way, the governments and corporations of the West have become theocratic in character, the queer religion supplying the scriptural content. Those who are skeptical or resist the queer religion are a special kind of heretic called a “transphobe.” In some places, when discovered, the queer church delivers the witch to the secular arm of the state, or, under corporatist arrangements, to the human resources department, where he is admonished, disciplined, reformed, or purged.
All this is to reassure the authentic self that he is a brave and beautiful angel. This is called “affirmation.”
I am introducing a term to describe this situation that I haven’t found anywhere: “rule by assumption.” It’s based loosely on the idea behind the concept of the “law of assumption,” which states that, by believing the thing you want already exists in your life, you manifest it into existence, as well as the slogan “the long march through the institutions” coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke in the 1960s to describe a strategy to implement radical change in government by becoming part of it.
In rule by assumption, political actors, expecting opposition to their agenda, insinuate themselves into positions of power and quietly implement the agenda without the input of those affected by it. In other words, others are assumed as part of an emergent organic state of affairs to which any decent and normal person would accede. Already ensnared in a web of assumption, objectors and resisters are then portrayed as lying outside the manufactured norms, justifiably branded heretics and witches and subject to the consequences described above.
freedom and reason 