Seeking Truth in Today's Troubled World

The Event and Its Distorted Message 

In August, outside an Arlington County School Board meeting in Virginia, a small protest formed over a proposal to restrict transgender students from using bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex. Among the counter-protesters stood a man holding a hand-drawn sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then Blacks can’t share my water fountain.” 

The message was directed at Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, a Black woman who had spoken in support of maintaining biological distinctions in public restroom policy. The sign was meant to shame her, to accuse her of hypocrisy, and to link her position to the racism of the Jim Crow era. But the comparison itself revealed something more troubling: the intellectual decay of a culture that can no longer tell the difference between a delusion and an injustice. 

The attempt to equate transgender bathroom restrictions with segregation-era racism is not moral insight. It is moral collapse. One concerns a society’s struggle to remain anchored in biological truth; the other was a nation’s crime against its own people. To place them on the same moral shelf is to deface history itself. 

The Collapse of Moral Clarity 

Racism chained human dignity to the color of skin. Gender ideology attempts to unchain human identity from biological truth. The first was an evil that dehumanized. The second is a confusion that de-realizes. Both harm the human person, but only one – racial segregation – was a systemic assault upon a people for what they were, not what they believed. 

The civil rights movement sought equality based on reality. The transgender movement seeks validation based on perception. One demands justice; the other demands affirmation. To confuse the two is to mock the very principles that made the first noble. 

The civil rights movement was rooted in truth. Its foundation was the conviction that all men are created equal and that no human being should be judged by skin color. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not plead for the world to ignore reality but to see it rightly. His appeal was to conscience, reason, and divine order. 

By contrast, the transgender movement rests upon the claim that reality itself must submit to emotion. It insists that human biology can be rewritten by personal feeling and that disagreement with this belief is oppression. This is not civil rights. It is an ideological crusade built on the denial of nature. 

To borrow the language of the civil rights struggle to defend gender confusion is moral plagiarism. It steals the moral authority of a righteous cause to validate one that cannot stand on its own. 

History rewards movements aligned with truth. The abolitionists prevailed because slavery violated self-evident moral law. The civil rights movement prevailed because segregation violated justice and reason. The transgender movement, however, demands that society affirm what is not true: that men can become women and women can become men. It replaces evidence with emotion and biology with belief. 

Philosophically, this is a category error of the highest order. To be born male or female is an objective reality. To believe oneself to be the opposite sex is a psychological condition. The proper response to the first is recognition. The proper response to the second is compassion coupled with truth. Confusing the two serves neither science nor mercy. 

The moral duty of a sane society is to align compassion with truth, not to sever them. When compassion is divorced from truth, it becomes sentimental tyranny. 

The Theft of Moral Legacy 

Equating transgender identity with racial identity is not advocacy. It is appropriation. It steals the moral weight of the civil rights struggle and applies it to an ideology that bears no resemblance to it. The men and women who faced dogs, fire hoses, and prison cells for their humanity did not fight for the right to redefine nature. They fought to be seen as human in the image of God. 

Black Americans were persecuted for what they could not change. Gender activists demand celebration for what they choose to imagine. That is not the same moral terrain. One calls for justice. The other calls for indulgence. To equate them is to treat delusion as destiny. 

When a protester held a sign comparing transgender bathroom policies to “white-only” water fountains, he did not reveal hypocrisy. He revealed the intellectual poverty of an age that has forgotten the meaning of words like truth, nature, and sanity. 

The corrective measure is not cruelty, but clarity. Society must relearn the difference between truth and empathy, between immutable nature and mutable perception. Compassion does not require capitulation. Justice does not require distortion. 

We must return to moral literacy. That begins with teaching that facts are not bigotry, that chromosomes are not opinions, and that reality does not yield to feelings. When we treat delusion as courage and confusion as identity, we lose our grip on what it means to be human. 

The civil rights movement taught the world that truth is colorblind. Our generation must rediscover that truth is not gender-blind. Facts remain what they are, no matter how loudly the world insists otherwise. 

Final Reflection 

To conflate mental disorder with racial oppression is to abandon both history and reason. It replaces moral vision with moral vanity. The task of our time is not to invent new identities but to recover old truths. 

Facts do not bend to emotion. Compassion does not rewrite chromosomes. And calling confusion “justice” does not make it so. 

In Christ’s Service,

~Jonathan F. Hillmer