I have had some dealings with crazy people and I’m not just talking about working for politicians. My first experience was with a friend of my mother who became convinced she was “the Madonna.” It was unnerving to hear someone say they were the mother of Jesus and be serious about it. What was more unnerving to me is the sense I got that she sort of knew she was saying crazy stuff. The look on her face said to me that she was not entirely sure what she was saying, why she was saying or if any of it made any sense. The strange cadence suggested she was hearing the words as we were hearing them.

Later in life, I’ve bumped into this a couple of times. In every case, the person appears to be unsure about their own sanity. That is, they say things that they suspect are crazy, but they are not sure. That’s why they always have that strange delay in their speech. They say something and then wait for the reaction, unsure if what they just said makes any sense. That’s always struck me as the true horror of insanity. If the crazy person is unaware of their insanity, they are not tormented by it. That’s usually not the case. The insane are tormented by the thought they may be losing their minds.

That always comes to mind when the Cult publishes a gender-bender story like this one.

It had been a relatively quiet policy debate until the full-page ad appeared in the local newspaper. “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter,” it said. “Are you OK with that?”

The ad, placed by a socially conservative group in Minnesota, was meant to snap attention to a proposal to allow transgender students to play on teams based on their preferred gender rather than the sex assigned to them at birth.

It appears to have worked. More than 100 community members flooded a meeting this week near Minneapolis, and thousands more sent e-mails. In response, the quasi-public body governing high school sports in Minnesota decided to delay a vote on a new policy covering sports participation by transgender students. Members of the board of directors said they needed more time to study the issue.

The policy, which they now plan to vote on in December, was an attempt to grapple with a question that has bedeviled many states: How do you deal with the growing number of children identifying as transgender who want to participate in the highly gender-specific worlds of high school sports and extracurricular activities?

Way back when the Cult stopped using the word sex to mean male and female and started improperly using the word “gender”, I know we were headed for trouble. Back then, the madness was about denying the obvious differences between boys and girls. Hilariously, they claimed that sex was a social construct, not a biological one. In order to mask the madness, they changed the language. If you let the lunatics control the language, everyone eventually sounds like a lunatic. That way, the lunatics no longer have to wonder if they are the crazy person in the room. Political correctness is a form of self-medication.

The fact that “growing number of children identifying as transgender” does not set off any alarm bells in the Cult speaks volumes. Science tells us that human beings evolved very slowly over thousands of generations of trial and error. It does not happen overnight. Therefore, “new” traits and new “trends” are never new. Either we just discovered a way to notice or we are kidding ourselves, pretending the old is new. In the case of children suffering from the mental disease of “transgenerism” the latter is the most likely answer. Turning a mental disorder into a fad is almost as crazy as thinking you are the off-spring of a human-alien coupling.

Those crazy people I references at the start have been handed control of society. Now it is the sane who are tormented, wondering if they are the ones losing their minds because they don’t think reality is infinity negotiable. If you don’t want a homosexual taking your son into the woods, you’re a child abusing nut. If you think your daughter should not be forced to shower with the boys, you”re a sexist. If you punch a woman in the face, you’re a misogynistic monster, but if you come to that woman’s aid, you’re also a misogynistic monster.

In the madhouse of modern America, this makes sense, What’s wrong with you?