The dictionary defines “ideology” as a system of ideas or beliefs, and today’s “gender ideology” is just that.

The idea that babies are “assigned” their sex at birth, as opposed to sex being observed and recorded as fact. The idea that biology is a myth. The idea that children can be “born in the wrong body” or that men can be women if they say so and feel very strongly about it. The idea that there are two classifications of people, “cisgender” and transgender. The idea that men can be pregnant, breastfeed and menstruate. The idea that drugging gender-nonconforming kids and amputating girls’ breasts is “care.” The idea that athletic competitions are contests of “gender identities” and not bodies.

It’s all complete BS. It’s an ideology no different in its fiction or function than the one that strung up women in Salem Massachusetts as witches. The world is not flat. There is no Easter Bunny. 

Transsexual people have been around forever and society accepted the deviation from the norm as just that, as it should today, with compassion and protection under the law. Today’s gender ideology has produced an epidemic that is infecting our youth, the unhinged political left and the captured media. 

Gender ideology is an assault on the truth. It is an orthodoxy demanding society suspend reality and speak a new language or be shunned.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Donald Trump is right about gender ideology. It doesn’t belong in Maine schools. 

Cynthia Dill (former Democratic state senator)
Cape Elizabeth