Through the Looking Glass, Again

Now, we all know that Tony Perkins would rather lie than tell the truth about almost anything, but this is -- well, see for yourself -- this is where it gets really surreal:

Especially, as many of us would point out, based on the Left’s flat-out denial of real science about gender, creation, conception, and medical research. Unlike conservatives, the president’s opponents are so ideologically-driven that they’ll ignore decades of technology just to deny that an unborn baby is a human being — or that gender is defined by biology at birth.

Setting aside the fact that Perkins apparently doesn't know the difference between science and technology (no real surprise there), let's start with gender, since trans folk are Perkins' latest target, now that he's lost the battle on gay rights. Courtesy of commenter JustDucky, from the Cleveland Clinic:

“The brain and the body can go in different directions,” Dr. [Murat] Altinay says. “Gender is not only in our genitalia; there’s something in the brain that determines gender.”

“The male and female brain have structural differences,” he says. Men and women tend to have different volumes in certain areas of the brain.

“When we look at the transgender brain, we see that the brain resembles the gender that the person identifies as,” Dr. Altinay says. For example, a person who is born with a penis but ends up identifying as a female often actually has some of the structural characteristics of a “female” brain.

And the brain similarities aren’t only structural.

“We’re also finding some functional similarities between the transgender brain and its identified gender,” Dr. Altinay says.

In studies that use MRIs to take images of the brain as people perform tasks, the brain activity of transgender people tends to look like that of the gender they identify with.

So, Perkins and his ilk don't understand gender, which is something separate from biological sex.

As for creation, do we really want to go there? The most rudimentary research into earth's beginnings and the origin of living organisms with blow the Biblical account[s] (yes, there are a couple) of creation out of the water. And the scientific version is backed up by evidence. The Biblical version is based on what we can only call hearsay.

Conception? Who denies the science behind conception? (And what is the "science" behind conception, anyway?) Anyone? Bueller?

And the idea that an "unborn baby" is a human being, that's just Perkins playing word games -- is a blastula a human being, entitled to all the rights thereof? If Perkins thinks that's the case, perhaps he should undertake a care and feeding of one such. (Oh, and as for this concern for children, anyone recall how forcefully Perkins and his fellow-travelers have spoken out about the children in cages on the southern border? I thought not.) (And don't forget, this whole theme is the anti-abortion plank, which, certain "Christians" claim, is against God's will. Well, not always.

This whole denial of science shtick is pure projection, no more, no less. Well, with a helping of word salad.

But then, it's Tony Perkins.