While I’ve noted the similarities between Separatism and Fundamentalism before, I wanted to point out yet another similarity between the groups: unsubstantiated prognostications of DOOOOM… unless the masses repent.

This is my first of a 5-part pwnage of the top 5 failed Separatist predictions of doom. Let’s get started!

Failed Forcast of Doom #1: IRS Deductions

Remember when it was asserted that the IRS gods punished infidelic trans folk for denying the one true vocabulary? According to this tale of doom, because trans-folk the world over opted to use words in a manner consistent with the English Language instead of the language of Separatism, the IRS disallowed deductions of trans-related medical expenses:

You have to expect that gender spectrum sociologists, who insist there is one BIG T umbrella that encompasses both the people born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS — a.k.a Transsexuality) and the vast ocean of gender variants in society, to drink the Transgender Kool-aid®… by accepting the politically correct Big T umbrella  theory, allowed O’Donnabhain to be associated with the transgender movement (the same ones whose public position is that SRS is a personal choice, not a medical necessity). This association gave the government lawyers leave to charge that the surgery is “cosmetic”, like teeth whitening, breast enlargement, and hair transplants… It’s time to send the great transgender umbrella to the junkyard… Those of us born transsexual do a disservice to Dr. Benjamin, if we allow his life’s work to be swept away by the fashionable politics of the moment.

– TS-Si.org [link]

According to this belief, the Bush-era IRS banned transition expenses because there exists a taxonomy inclusive of all people of non-cis history/experience/expression. Apparently Bush era politics had nothing to do with it because, yes… the TG Borg is just that powerful.

REPENT SINNERS lest… ” [GLAAD lose] because of their own ineptness, and that ineptness might provide an opening for social conservatives to join with the great transgender army in the belief that sex reassignment surgery is an option only chosen by the crazy ones.”

Unfortunately for this forecast of doom, the IRS (now under the Obama Administration) allows for the deduction of expenses incurred due to transition even though the term “transgender” is still used in a manner consistent with the English language.

Oh,The Irony!

This article refers to a made-up “condition” known as Harry Benjamin Syndrome (a fancy word for True Transsexual™). While I DO NOT agree with Benjamin, I’m posting a link to what Benjamin ACTUALLY said about sex reassignment surgery (SRS) because I find it highly ironic that their elitist group named themselves after a man who said that SRS “does not change you into a woman. Your inborn (genetic) sex will remain male. If the surgeion castrates you as part of the operation, you would be, technically and from a glandular point of view, neither male nor female. You would be a ‘neuter.'” [/box]