Lost in Trans-lation: Deconstructing the reality dysphoria dialogue.

The transgender movement, “asks the general public to acknowledge an objective impossibility—namely the notion that subjective feelings alone can determine gender.” Referring to a person by former name or pronouns is “deadnaming” a grave offense targeted by online censors. Twitter, for example, suspended the Babylon Bee for Levine’s “Man of the Year” award and suspended Representative Jim Banks (R-Ind.) for referring to Levine as a man.

“What else in all of human society works this way, or ever has?” wonders Bawer. In all of recorded history, when has “such a radical alteration in civilization’s basic rules of the road taken effect so quickly, as a result of no public debate, and even with the slightest dissent from the new orthodoxy often punished severely?” The answer is never, until the sudden onset of reality dysphoria.

Levine’s identification as a woman has no bearing on the truth, yet Levine demands to be addressed as a woman. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) falsely claimed to be a Cherokee and expects everyone to go along, regardless of the reality. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam, and everyone is supposed to look the other way.

Under reality dysphoria, fakery can be indulged with impunity. Blumenthal and Warren did not resign, and Warren even went on to run for president of the United States.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a government bureaucrat since 1968 and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, now claims “I represent science.” Under reality dysphoria, the people are supposed to accept this claim, despite Fauci’s repeated reversals and destructive lockdowns.