It’s annoying to have to spend so much time rebutting a superstition as nonsensical as the belief that the world is flat, but because the belief is so dangerous to children, women, medical care, mental health care, public education, and speech rights, rebutting is necessary. The belief that gobbles up so much cultural time and space is the phantasmagorical and pernicious anti-science notion that men and women can become the sex they are not by the sheer power of their desire, makeup, hormone-doping, and some nips and tucks.
The dangers of this au courant metaphysical superstition are obvious to most Americans, and yet “trans” activists and their collaborators somehow retain outsize cultural influence. Like the clout-chasing, infamy-sucking Dylan Mulvaney, female impersonator Nicholas (Nick) Contino, who now goes by his chosen transonym “Lilly” is the most recent tranny to go viral with his social media victimhood posts.
The 32-year-old Contino first appeared on the cultural scene in 2022, but recently, his sorry social media presence has exploded because he chose to invade multiple women’s restrooms at Disneyworld wearing women’s—sometimes young girl’s–clothing and Minnie Mouse ears, take selfies of his invasions, and post them on social media.
Those violations of the privacy of women and children, and potential violations of the law may send the petulant pervert Contino to jail.
Hindustan Times reports on the legal woes that may land in the frilly lap of Contino:
Reflections of women and young girls were visible in the background, none of whom had given consent to be filmed or photographed. Faces were not blurred, and the photos weren’t edited to crop anyone out.
Now, at least two women have said they’re preparing to take legal action. One of them, a mother whose child appeared in the background of the photos, is reportedly working with an attorney. Both are considering civil lawsuits for invasion of privacy and emotional distress.
If convicted, Tino could face up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine under Florida’s strict privacy statutes, which prohibit unauthorised photography in settings where people expect a reasonable degree of privacy, such as restrooms.
Contino’s Disneyworld microaggressions against women and children follow several videos in which Contino masters his art of entrapping restaurant servers in order to humiliate them and portray himself as the aggrieved party.
He goes to restaurants explicitly seeking to “normalize being a trans person in public,” looking as creepy as drag queens do. He sets up his phone, knowing full well that normal people will respectfully address him as “sir,” and then, like the cultural predator he is, Contino pounces on servers for speaking truth. At moments Contino feigns feeling hurt—poor baby—and at other moments, he becomes hostile, berating his obsequious, apologetic servers.
Contino also mocks women who are uncomfortable sharing private spaces with cross-dressing men, portraying himself as the one who is justified in being nervous during his invasions.
In one Instagram video recorded as he leaves a women’s restroom, he describes waiting in line for a stall next to a very young girl who was waiting for her mother. He was wearing a black leather jacket, a black and white polka dot bow in his long red ringlets, black lipstick, and huge ladies’ sunglasses. Anticipating a negative reaction from the mother, he left without going to the bathroom, saying he like other crossdressers in that situation felt unsafe and that their feelings are “not okay.” No word about the feelings of the little girl, her mother, or all the other women in that restroom.
Like other “trans” cultists, Contino believes he has the absolute right to demand that others participate in his fiction. And like other “trans”-cultists, he believes everyone in the world has an ethical obligation to participate in his fiction. Therein lies yet more errors in his worldview.
He has a right to ask and even arrogantly demand that others refer to him as Ms., Mx. or she/her. But no one has an ethical or moral obligation to submit to his preposterous and unethical rhetorical demands. No one has a moral obligation to lie in service of Contino’s disordered superstition.
For those who believe rightly that Contino is a man and who believe lying is wrong, demanding they lie and violate their own convictions, which for many are religious convictions, is disrespectful.
In one of his poor, poor pitiful me videos, Contino talks about going to a “wine castle” with his “girlfriend,” who is another female-impersonating man, at which a server called him “sir.” Contino gripes that after he told the server, “Oh, no, no, no, I’m actually not a ‘sir’,” the server didn’t apologize.
No apology was owed Contino because actually he is a “sir.” He is objectively, immutably male and will remain so in perpetuity. He is free to sashay about the world in ladies’ frocks and lingerie, and the world is free to absent itself from the Upside Down where Contino chooses to live and move and have his being.
Contino’s sophistical, manipulative appeals to respect and compassion may work with the weakest and most ignorant among us, but they won’t work with rational, wise people not vulnerable to the machinations of demagogues.
Contino believes others must defer to his peculiar reconceptualization of his reality, a reconceptualization that denies the objective reality of his sexed body. Others, however, conceive of reality in objective terms. They believe that sexed bodies have profound meaning and that the “trans” ideology is fallacious and destructive. They will not and ought not acquiesce to any actions that facilitate deception and evil.
“Trans”-cultists argue ad nauseum that those who reject “trans”-cultic assumptions are denying the existence of “transgendered” people. No one denies that there exist people who, for diverse reasons, wish they were the sex they aren’t, or who believe they were “born in the wrong” body, which is just another way of saying they wish they were the sex they aren’t.
What those who reject the “trans” ideology deny is that objectively male persons can become female or vice versa. They reject Contino’s explicit claim that “transwomen” are women. They reject the claim that men who appropriate female fashions and pronouns, and who cosmetically alter their male bodies are, in reality, women.
“Trans”-cultists also argue ad nauseum that widespread rejection of their “trans” assumptions will lead to their marginalization. That’s true. Societies are unified as societies, in part, by shared moral and ethical principles. Some beliefs are rejected because they’re false and undermine human flourishing. Those who publicly embrace principles and practices that society views as false and harmful will be marginalized.
It’s past time to reverse the corrosive course leftist academics and activists have foisted on America. Small business owners and public schools should be free not to hire men who choose to cross-dress and use women’s bathrooms. Sports leagues should be free to prohibit biological males—also known as boys and men—from participating in women’s sports. The Boy Scouts of America should be as free to ban biological girls as the National Council of Negro Women is free to ban Rachel Dolezal or men. And no one should be asked or required to mis-sex cross-sex-impersonating men and women or be expected to share private spaces with opposite-sex persons.