The moral aporias of contemporary progressive politics are becoming more obvious on a regular basis. This week, the U.K.’s
Attitude
magazine named transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney its “
Woman of the Year
” and featured him on its cover. As is increasingly the case with such awards, the choice of the recipient has little to do with merit or service to the wider community and everything to do with “sticking it to the Man.” Or, in this case, sticking it to the Woman. The award and the cover speak eloquently about the ideology of transgenderism. To give it to a man is to erase real women everywhere, to deny any significance to their bodies or distinctive bodily experiences, and also to deny the historical struggle of women for basic social recognition.