The United States Supreme Court has spoken, and for once, it spoke with the voice of sanity. In a 6-3 decision, the Court upheld President Trump’s executive order requiring all new passports to reflect an individual’s biological sex at birth – male or female. No “X.” No ambiguity. No fantasy cosplay, furry fluff, or finicky fluid identities ... just natural order and God's creation.
This ruling is more than a bureaucratic adjustment; it is a cultural declaration, a planting of the conservative flag. It says that America, at least in this moment, will not surrender to the whims of postmodern identity politics, leftist demasculinization, or the gelding of traditional values. It authoritatively says that the federal government will not be party to the erasure of biology, the confusion of children, or the weaponization of paperwork to serve weird flights of fantasy.
As I have opined before, nations have borders for reasons, and like-minded peoples who share common values and social constructs coalesce within protected, geographically defined entities. Passports are the bona fides of these entities; thus, in the interest of safety and security, the information on passports should be factual, not that of feelings written in a diary or displayed on a mood ring.
The left has tried to dissolve these facts, continuing an unabated assault on God's natural order. As a result, we were exposed to farcical folly, including debates on obvious fundamental tenets such as, "What is a woman?"
The left has insisted that gender is a subjective spectrum, that biology is obtusely oppressive, and that the state must affirm every self-declared identity, no matter how fluid or fantastical. Under President Biden, the State Department began issuing passports with an “X” marker, allowing applicants to opt out of male or female altogether – all in the name of “progress.”
But the tide turns.
This Court decision is a victory for the rule of law, righteousness, and reason. It affirms that the government has no obligation to indulge delusion, nor will it allow others to do so in matters of national security. It affirms that law must be rooted in reality. It demonstrates that many Americans still believe in truth, order, and the created nature of man and woman.
The ruling has also sparked outrage. The ACLU calls it “irreparable harm.” Activists claim it will endanger trans and nonbinary travelers.
But what kind of society are we building when truth itself is treated as violence and when the mere acknowledgment of male and female is cast as oppression?
Those who claim such folly are seeking to usurp God's majesty. This is not compassion; rather, it is corrosive chaos. It eats away at the foundations of law, language and liberty. It turns institutions into instruments of ideology, children into perverse experiments, and passports into propaganda.
The Supreme Court’s decision is the line of demarcation, the heralding of a greater Christ-centric restoration. But if we are to reclaim our culture, we must do more than win court cases. We must reassert the truth in every arena – education, medicine, media, technology, economics, and a myriad of other societal elements. We must teach our children that they are not accidents or abstractions, but embodied souls made male or female by divine design. It falls squarely on Christendom and the Church to speak with authority and conviction on these matters.
Arm thyself, citizen, for they will surely call us bigots, regressive, homophobes, Nazis and fascists. But their words are without efficacy or authority. Their secular natures, pagan practices, and worldly ways will continue to be their downfall. Their visions are hallucinations, and their revolution is collapsing under the weight of its own contrary contradictions.
Meanwhile, back in Majority Middle America, we give thanks, preparing for the present, the future, and for eternity. We continue building a nation where truth is not negotiable, where identity is not a costume, and where law reflects reality. This we will defend. RLTW.
Troy Carico is a former infantry enlisted soldier (11B) and infantry officer with branch qualifications including counterintelligence (35E) and military intelligence (35D). He served with distinction in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years and is highly decorated and service-connected disabled. He also has prior service as a civilian intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency Great Skills Program and has served in numerous clandestine assignments throughout the world.
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