Caitlyn Jenner Cancels Speaking Tour

Bruce Jenner's 15 minutes of fame are up.

Caitlyn Jenner has canceled her upcoming speaking tour, Gossip Cop confirms.

As Gossip Cop reported, Jenner’s rep confirmed in October that she would embark on a five-city tour with the women’s lecture organization Unique Lives and Experiences. The tour was to be called “Up Close And Personal,” with the transgender star slated to make appearances at venues in Toronto, Vancouver, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle beginning in late February. Tickets were on sale with prices ranging from $40 to $500 for a VIP package, depending on the location.

Mummers Parade Mocks Bruce Jenner in Comedy Sketch Singing ‘Dude Looks Like a Lady’

Race and Gender as Self Identity Issues

Who is Black or White, Female or Male?  Is "call me Caitlin" Jenner female or male?  Jenner has male genitalia and male XY chromosomes that can never be surgically altered.

As Elizabeth Price Foley points out

Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the famous “separate but equal” Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, was 7/8 white and 1/8 black,

According to Louisiana law at that time that made him black, but what race was he really?

Barack Obama had a White mother and a Black father but he self-identifies as Black. But what is he really? If he decided, like Jenner, that he's really mentally female, would he be the first Black Female president? How much Black blood in post Civil Rights America does it take to be Black, or White? What would Homer Plessey be considered by today's America and today's judicial system? Would Homer be entitled to claim all the privileges of Affirmative Action? Even as he's claiming to really be White?

Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) identified herself as American Indian without any evidence and despite looking as  white as the Pillsbury Dough Boy.  She was rewarded with the benefits of affirmative action, getting a highly compensated Professorship at Harvard.  And despite her non-Indian identity no being common knowledge the Left wing of the Democrat Party desperately want her to be their next President. 

Foley again:

Self-identification does appear, at least to the political left, to be the sine qua non of gender. Progressives/liberals have aggressively defended the “right” of Bruce Jenner to call himself a “woman,” if/when he so desires ...

If gender is merely a matter of self-identification, should not race be also? I have always thought that, given the affirmative action-laden higher education admissions process, applicants should self-identify as “black” or “Native American” whenever they so desire. I mean, why not? If they feel black or Native American, should not they be able to claim such an identity, as Rachel Dolezal has done? Doing so would quickly cause affirmative action to collapse of its own ridiculous weight....

What would a university do if an applicant self-identified as “black” on an application but showed up looking “white”? And if the university made such a judgment, what on earth would that mean? How would the university defend its belief that a student didn’t “look” black? What sort of bizarre racial stereotypes would it rely upon in making such an appearance-based judgment? And if the university actually decided to take action against the student for racial misrepresentation, what on earth would that mean? How would the university judge whether the student was really “black”? What percentage of blood would suffice for such a progressive institution? Fifty percent? Ten percent? One percent?

If Left-dominated institutions now accept self-identification it makes sense to claim the identity of favored groups.

I think someone once said that you should make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.  The Left wrote this book of rules, let's run with it.

Jenner is nuts

"Symbolic of our struggle against oppression"

How long will it be before this scene is deleted from "The Life of Brian?"

Who knew that those guy everyone thought were edgy comedians poking a finger in the eye of culture were just a bunch of bigots trying to perpetuate the heteronormative patriarchal oppression of the very Christian Culture they were supposedly mocking.

Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution

The government and media alliance advancing the transgender cause has gone into overdrive in recent weeks. On May 30, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services review board ruled that Medicare can pay for the "reassignment" surgery sought by the transgendered—those who say that they don't identify with their biological sex. Earlier last month Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that he was "open" to lifting a ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. Time magazine, seeing the trend, ran a cover story for its June 9 issue called "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's next civil rights frontier."

Yet policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention. This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.

Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies

Like Bruce Jenner. Not really conceptually different.  Just changing your body to fit your mental image.

OTTAWA — When he cut off his right arm with a “very sharp power tool,” a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident.

But he had for months tried different means of cutting and crushing the limb that never quite felt like his own, training himself on first aid so he wouldn’t bleed to death, even practicing on animal parts sourced from a butcher.

“My goal was to get the job done with no hope of reconstruction or re-attachment, and I wanted some method that I could actually bring myself to do,” he told the body modification website ModBlog.