The
Wall Street Journal
recently posted an article about a growing concern that there are not enough donations of sperm to meet rising demand. It was reported that in California 60 percent of the applications for sperm to the California Cryobank have come from people in the LGBTQ cohort, and 20 percent from single women. One response is to think of augmenting the supply by augmenting the population of donors. Why not add to the ranks of donors the thousands of transgender persons, identifying now as “males,” who have appeared in a surge in just these last few years? The proposal is of course fatuous, but what makes it so patently absurd reveals at the same time what is deeply absurd in the string of recent decisions on transgenderism that have been working their way through the courts.