Last week, Michael Knowles appeared at CPAC, where he argued against the leftist-pushed social contagion encouraging our children to deny their biological reality in favor of the so-called “transgender” fantasy. He’d barely finished speaking before the leftist media, led by Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast, accused him of pushing for the “extermination” of people who claim to be “transgender.” Both Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast backed off that position, but their attack makes it more imperative to highlight Knowles’s analysis of what happened, especially because it’s an unusually elegant challenge to transgender madness.

During his CPAC speech, Knowles essentially said that transgenderism is a dangerous, damaging ideology and that we need to rid the public square of the concept. When he spoke of people who claim to be “transgender,” he said only that they’re acting upon a very damaging belief system and that the best thing for them is for the belief, not the people, to be wiped from the public square.

The lies from big, leftist, online media were instant:

Very quickly, though, undoubtedly after words of warning from their legal departments, both outlets changed their headlines:

Naturally, rather than accepting the truth, left-wing activists attacked Rolling Stone and the Daily Beast for bowing “to right wing pressure.”

Moreover, as with all lies, this particular lie had legs:

Leavitt, incidentally, has almost 340,000 Twitter followers.

The fact that this lie will continue to circulate is an inevitable byproduct of the internet world in which we live. Knowles sounds sanguine about that fact.

The important question is why the media and activists attacked Knowles so crudely and brutally. I think the answer lies in the fact that Knowles is unusually elegant in how he challenges transgender madness, root and branch.

For example, Knowles is one of the few who notes that conservatives fall into the leftist trap when they go the libertarian route and say that surgery and deadly drugs are fine for adults, but not for children. If transgenderism is real, then the activists are correct that children should be “treated” too. And if it’s not real, anybody with the delusion should gently be led back to reality.

In any event, I listened today as Michael Knowles discussed both the attack against him and reiterated his position on transgenderism. The latter struck me so much that I wanted to share it with you. He starts his show with that discussion:

We need more people to speak this truth before more young Americans are physically and mentally destroyed by this ideological plague.  

Image: Michael Knowles. YouTube screen grab.