(LifeSiteNews) — As the transgender movement faces its first major social backlash since achieving cultural ascendancy in the mid-2010s, the mainstream press has been doing its bit to hold the line. The BBC, as I noted earlier this week, is still referring to trans-identifying male criminals as “she.” But I suspect that, increasingly, this propaganda is having precisely the opposite of the intended effect.

For example, for several years, the public was barraged with an endless conveyor belt of stories about “pregnant men” in magazines, news articles, and documentaries, replete with glossy photo shoots of bearded women in stirrups “chest-feeding” their newborns and TV segments with wide-eyed, gushing hosts interviewing the newly minted “men” who were giving birth. This coverage, however, sparked widespread backlash online.

People didn’t buy it. The first rule of killing a frog in boiling water: don’t boil it too fast, or it will notice and jump out.

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Now, as LGBT activists desperately try to stop the Overton window from shifting in the other direction, “human interest” stories in media outlets are being pushed out to highlight the impact of legislation that reaffirms the sex binary and showcases the lives of those impacted. One such piece was published in the U.K. Metro this week. Titled “I’m a non-binary parent but have had to accept being called ‘Daddy,’” it is precisely the kind of propaganda piece that shows how out of touch LGBT activists are with the public.

The opinion column, authored by Tom Dashby, reads like something one might write to make fun of LGBT activists – but it is real. Dashby is the sort of person who spends much of his time analyzing his own identity without gaining the slightest bit of self-awareness, and he writes about his pain at being called “Daddy” when his identical twins were born. Dashby, a scruffy looking fellow with pink hair, writes:

As an assigned male at birth (AMAB) non-binary person, being referred to as ‘the dad’ or ‘daddy’ – which are clearly masculine-gendered terms – didn’t fit with my gender identity. But as the options for gender-neutral titles aren’t great – and deviating from the traditional binary gendered parent names is fraught with risks like people not being able to work out what my relationship is with my children – I’ve had to learn to make peace with being misgendered in this way ever since.

To translate: this new father is pained at being referred to as a father because the term does not encapsulate his “gender identity,” which is “non-binary,” which is to say that he rejects both sexes, and that he will now be forced to suffer through fatherhood being referred to as “Daddy.” Which, for some of us, is the coolest title we’ve ever received, but for Dashby represents a massive civilizational failure:

I wish that we as a society had already established gender-neutral parent words which everyone is aware of, to allow me to be recognised as my full self, but the poor state of LGBTQIA+ education means this feels like a distant possibility. I realised I was non-binary and came out in early 2017, at the start of a wave of lots of other people realising the same thing. I was 25 and had a brief period of unemployment, living back at home with my parents, which gave me time to be introspective and figure out who I was.

I’ll admit – that paragraph made me laugh out loud. That’s what ChatGPT might spit out if you asked it to write a Babylon Bee column about a non-binary person experiencing fatherhood.

Dashby goes on to say that he isn’t just “non-binary” – the “narrow ideas we are fed about binary genders don’t sit well with me” and that thus he is “agender,” which, for those keeping track (yeah, yeah, don’t all take notes at once), is “one of the many identities under the trans and non-binary umbrella.”

The realization that one has become a parent is an awesome moment for anyone. For Dashby, however, it meant that he “would need to have a parent name – what would my children call me?” But when he went hunting, the best he could find was terms like “ren,” a derivative of “parent.”  He didn’t like that, and so “turned to a Facebook group dedicated to LGBT parents of twins asking for inspiration,” where an Asian term was suggested. He liked it, but “ruled it out as it would have felt like cultural appropriation.”

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Then, Dashby made the ultimate sacrifice: “[N]aturally, I went back and forth between wanting to protect my own self-actualisation as a non-binary person and making things as easy as possible for my children (and for me as their parent) numerous times throughout the pregnancy.” Naturally! He was already facing “binary gendered terms” at hosptials, etc., where “many of these places still assume they will be dealing with a woman as the mother and a man as the father.” (In 2025!) Even the midwife, he writes sadly, called him “daddy,” even though he had previously told her that his pronouns are “they/them.”

As JK Rowing put it: “Imagine being in labour with twins and hearing the father of your children telling your midwife his pronouns.” Indeed. Stories like this are intended to engender (sorry) empathy for LGBT activists and their day to day struggles in a binary world. But increasingly, they do just the opposite. Dashby’s non-binary nonsense is the ultimate luxury belief in a difficult world, and the account of his “struggle” only emphasizes just how insane and self-indulgent his worldview really is.