ANALYSIS: What Republicans Should Learn From the Transgender Moment

By Published on May 29, 2015

In less than two years, transgender rights have gone from a non-issue to non-negotiable in the Democratic Party.

Rather than dismiss this change as a politically irrelevant story that belongs in the tabloids, Republicans should view it as a case study in the political power of principle. For it was principle, not a political campaign, that has advanced transgender rights so far so fast.

If Republicans would likewise put principle before policy, they would not only have the power to win elections but also the power to bring America back into fidelity with our country’s founding vision.

The transgender moment is the culmination of an idea, not a campaign. The idea is simple: Your sexual desire, not your biology, constitutes your identity.

This principle underlies both the widespread indifference to the biological implications of same-sex attraction, and, when pushed to its logical extreme, Bruce Jenner’s assertion that, “for all intents and purposes, [he is] a woman.” To accept Jenner’s claim that God gave him a female soul and a male body is also to accept the assertion that human beings exist independently of their bodies.

The fate of the transgender moment rests completely on the triumph of this one idea.

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