{"id":8075,"date":"2025-08-22T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:58:40","slug":"can-a-man-become-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/can-a-man-become-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Man Become a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dirty Laundry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Politicians have to answer questions for the media all the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a symbiotic relationship. The media wants to know what politicians think, especially if they say something that will generate headlines.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the end, the media needs readers or viewers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like the \u201calgorithms\u201d that drive social media, the more outrageous the statement, the more the media meets their needs.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a matter of their survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politicians need the media, because, they need votes to stay in power.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are lots of ways to contact voters, to let them know ideas and views.&nbsp;&nbsp;But many of those methods are expensive, especially broadcast media.&nbsp;&nbsp;So if a politician can get \u201cfree time\u201d, it has actual cash value.&nbsp;&nbsp;(<em>Like him or not, Donald Trump is a master for getting \u201cfree time\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He did it from the beginning in 2015, and continues to dominate the media landscape today.&nbsp;&nbsp;The saying goes, \u201cHe takes all of the oxygen out of the room\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Trump can dominate so effectively, that there is little time left for anyone else).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Premise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So here\u2019s the \u201cformula\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The media asks questions to generate headlines.&nbsp;&nbsp;The politicians want answers that will generate headlines.&nbsp;&nbsp;The key is, that the politicians want headlines that are beneficial to their efforts, \u201cgood\u201d headlines, while the media really doesn\u2019t care.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their view, as the Don Henley song goes:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fwgJgTL5JmE\">Give us dirty laundry<\/a>\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere behind a politician is an \u201coperative\u201d, a political strategist who helps him or her advance.&nbsp;&nbsp;Before every encounter with the media, that \u201coperative\u201d (either apocryphally or physically) whispers in the politicians ear:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cDon\u2019t accept the premise of the question\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Many media questions are in black and white terms, even on issues that aren\u2019t black and white at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cover-simplification\u201d of the question is designed to elicit a simple, headline generating answer.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if the answer is somewhere in the middle, even if the question doesn\u2019t allow it; the politician needs to get \u201cpolitical\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;They need to rephrase the question in a way so that their answer addresses the complexity of the problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;They can\u2019t accept the premise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rahm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahm Emanuel is the former Democratic Mayor of Chicago and US Ambassador to Japan.&nbsp;&nbsp;But before his political career as a candidate, Emanuel was an \u201coperative\u201d himself, leading candidates to success, including serving as Barack Obama\u2019s Chief of Staff in the White House.&nbsp;&nbsp;He\u2019s now thinking of running for President in the 2028 Democratic Primaries, and is trying to get \u201chis headlines\u201d by appearing on right-wing media. (Other possible candidates, like Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, are doing the same).&nbsp;&nbsp;Emanuel is known for his abrasiveness, and also his political acuity.&nbsp;&nbsp;So when he appeared on Megan Kelly\u2019s show a few weeks ago, it\u2019s not likely that he accidently accepted the premise of this question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCan a man become a woman?\u201d Kelly asked Emanuel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCan a man become a woman? Not \u2014 no,\u201d&nbsp;the former Chicago mayor and&nbsp;Obama&nbsp;chief of staff replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you,\u201d Kelly responded. (<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5412545-rahm-emanuel-transgender-controversy\/\">The Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He accepted the premise of the question.&nbsp;&nbsp;He looked at gender identity, a huge range of possibilities, and saw it only as black and white.&nbsp;&nbsp;And he did it intentionally, to get the headline, and to put himself \u201capart\u201d from most of the Democratic field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Answer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer could have reflected the reality of trans-genderism.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are different measures of \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d, besides just physical equipment.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBrain identity\u201d can and is more important than visual appearance.&nbsp;&nbsp;And science recognizes multiple combinations of DNA and pre-birth changes that might have one physical result, but another \u201cbrain identity\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer should have been that a man doesn\u2019t become a woman, but a person who has one set of physical characteristics might have other unseen changes that means they are a different gender.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rahm could have taken his opportunity to explain all this to the MAGA world, and spoken \u201ctruth to power\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he didn\u2019t.&nbsp;&nbsp;He wanted the headline.&nbsp;&nbsp;He\u2019s looking for \u201chis place\u201d in a Democratic Primary, the candidate in the center of the political spectrum.&nbsp;&nbsp;His answer got the \u201clead\u201d, and a thank you from Megan Kelly, as if Rahm acknowledged a \u201ctruth\u201d that only MAGA-world really knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Operative<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a political operative behind Emanuel who did a \u201chigh five\u201d for the answer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Democrats were \u201cburned\u201d by the MAGA anti-transgendered campaign in 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;It certainly took Sherrod Brown down here in Ohio.&nbsp;&nbsp;And some operatives have made a calculation:&nbsp;&nbsp;Democrats must step away from \u201cgender issues\u201d, and stop supporting \u201ctrans\u201d and other LGBTQ rights.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s kind of a, \u201cLet\u2019s \u2018pretend\u2019 we don\u2019t support LGBTQ, so we can get back in power,\u201d thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of educating, and recognizing the real complexity of human gender and sexuality; some Democrats are \u201caccepting the premise\u201d of MAGA gender identity.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s simple and headline generating, even if it\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahm could have said:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cNo a man can\u2019t become a woman \u2013 unless she already is\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;That would have gotten him just as many headlines.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s one more advantage \u2013 it would be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty Laundry Politicians have to answer questions for the media all the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a symbiotic relationship. The media wants to know what politicians think, especially if they say something that will generate headlines.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the end, the media needs readers or viewers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like the \u201calgorithms\u201d that drive social media, the more outrageous the statement, the more the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/can-a-man-become-a-woman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can a Man Become a Woman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can a Man Become a Woman : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/can-a-man-become-a-woman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can a Man Become a Woman : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dirty Laundry Politicians have to answer questions for the media all the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a symbiotic relationship. 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