Washington Irving once satirized philosophers and scientists who invent “ingenious and natural theories” that in fact have nothing to do with reality, hence “Dame Nature” refuses to conform to them in any way. One instance in our own day of such a theory is transgenderism.
Having exhausted their perverted imaginations inventing dozens of genders and hundreds of new words, transgender advocates are offended that biology does not, in fact, allow one to alter one’s biological sex — or make “cake gender” and vampself exist in the real world. That does not unfortunately stop them from chopping off young people’s body parts and giving them harmful drugs to try and force Nature to change based on their sick ideology.
In his satirical “Knickerbocker’s History of New York,” one of his wittiest works, Washington Irving laughed at philosophers/scientists so extremely sure of their own correctness, only to be disproved by nature itself or the next generation of experts. Throughout all of history, one assertion about medicine or science will be universally accepted for a time, even to the point of attacking anyone challenging it, only for it to prove false after all. That’s something modern experts should keep in mind when they claim “science is settled,” especially when it comes to the patently preposterous ideology of transgenderism.
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As Irving jokingly described it:
It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking philosopher, that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his system, and flatly contradict his most favorite positions.
This is a manifest and unmerited grievance, since it throws the censure of the vulgar and unlearned entirely upon the philosopher; whereas the fault is not to be ascribed to his theory, which is unquestionably correct, but to the waywardness of Dame Nature, who, with the proverbial fickleness of her sex, is continually indulging in coquetries and caprices, and seems really to take pleasure in violating all philosophic rules, and jilting the most learned and indefatigable of her adorers.
Irving was talking about various debunked scientific theories (including from his contemporaries) concerning why and how the Earth revolved around the sun, but his mockery of overly self-important scientists and pseudo-scientific frauds could apply just as aptly to some modern scientists and doctors, especially those who support transgenderism.
Like the philosophers and scientists who tried to make reality conform to their theories, woke leftists in the modern scientific and medical communities try to make biology conform to their insane and damaging ideology.
To adapt Irving’s words to our current situation, It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking woke Marxist, that nature often refuses to second his/ver/eirs most profound and elaborate ideological efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and unnatural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his/her/zir/cyr/yos system, and flatly contradict his/her/xyr/cos/vamp most favorite positions.
