COMMENTARY: Let your baby transform you like it has so many other mothers.
Jennifer Roback Morse June 9, 2023
Each year for Pride Month, the sexual revolutionaries see how low they can go. For 2023, the prize goes to the UK edition of Glamour magazine, which presented on its June cover a photo of what it claimed was a pregnant man. I was all set to write an article stating that this article is pure propaganda, and everyone should disregard it. Then, I read the interview with Logan Brown, the allegedly pregnant “man,” as well as the letter she wrote to her newborn daughter. It broke my heart.
I discovered that she and her partner, Bailey Mills are not only both “non-binary.” They also have ADHD and are on the autism spectrum. Logan and Bailey are in their 20s, 40 years younger than my husband and me. I couldn’t help but look back over all the destruction the gender ideology has wreaked in our lives.
The gender ideology is the idea that the sex of the body is insubstantial and can be overwritten with enough medical, technological and social engineering. For me and my husband, the gender ideology meant that we were supposed to be “equal” in all things. In practice, this meant we had separate bank accounts. He was supposed to do half of all the household chores I considered important. We were each surprised every time one of us wanted something deeply different than the other.
I can honestly say, the first time it became real that men and women are different was when we experienced infertility. Being unable to conceive meant something very different to me as a woman, than it meant to him as a man.
When the children finally did arrive, one by birth, one by adoption, the differences between my husband and me became even more obvious. I had prided myself on being a “tough cookie” in the classroom. My graduate students called me the “dragon lady.” That part of my personality completely disintegrated when the babies came. I wanted our children to be comfortable. My husband wanted them to behave.
Our son, who had been badly neglected, needed us to be united. His needs became more important than my abstract commitment to “equality.” I finally changed my name to my husband’s.
Logan and Bailey have embraced an even more toxic version of the gender ideology. By now, we’re all supposed to be convinced that we not only can overwrite the sex of the body. A good and decent society should overwrite the sex of the body, if it interferes with other more important values, such as equality or personal autonomy. My husband and I tried to ignore the impact of our gendered bodies, in the name of “equality.” These young people are attempting it in the name of personal autonomy.
Logan Brown stated in her interview, “what makes me feel empowered as a trans man is that whoever I say I am, is exactly who I am. No one can ever take that away from me.” She, and others like her, believe they can solve their problems by radically transforming their bodies. Logan had a double mastectomy because, “I wasn’t happy with my chest.” Now, she will never have the joy of nursing her baby. She can’t even attempt it. She has no idea what she has missed.
Glamour magazine introduces the interview with Logan Brown with this:
About the Ruth Institute
The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization, leading an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Jennifer Roback Morse has a Ph.D. in economics and has taught at Yale and George Mason University. She is the author of The Sexual State and Love and Economics – It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Morse, contact media@ruthinstitute.org.
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