The Triumphal Disappearance of Motherhood

When women disappear, so do mothers

Incredibly, a portion of the world population no longer acknowledges that women exist as a physically discernable class of people. As increasing numbers of people are pointing out, if we cannot define what a woman is, how can we defend women’s spaces, women’s sports, or women’s rights at large? How can we defend, protect, or champion something we cannot define?

We can’t.

As massively troubling as that is, there is something else festering just below the surface. The next casualty of the transgender agenda is beginning to rise from the mire of transgender ideology. She has a uterus and ovaries and people used to call her, “Mom.”

A prominent feminist of the 1970s, Shulamith Firestone, offered a glimpse of how the demise of mothers and the family would come about. She said that when “transsexuality” became the norm, “the blood tie of the mother to the child would eventually be severed” and the triumphal “disappearance of motherhood” would follow. She explained that the “ultimate goal” was “the elimination…of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally” and by this means “the tyranny of the biological family would be broken.”

Note what Firestone said: When sex distinctions of the body cease to be recognized as culturally important, the family will cease to be recognized as important, and it will buckle. And she was right. Legal movements surrounding transgenderism are setting the stage for the legal marginalization of mothers, fathers, and families by force of law.

When women legally disappear, so do mothers because “mother” is a sex-specific designation. And so is “father.” If there are not two specific, perceivable sexes definitively recognized by law, then it becomes difficult to define or defend mothers or fathers—along with their parental rights—in legal terms. If we can no longer articulate or acknowledge what it means to be female, how can we articulate or acknowledge what it means to be a mother?

We can’t.

Read more about this topic in Chapter 12 of my book, The Invincible Family.

Me and my boy