Transsexual activists managed to interject their propaganda into the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game. A new, major, sympathetic character, Hyun Ju (aka Player 120), is trans-ing. We’re supposed to learn sympathy for the idea that a man who wants to be a woman can do so. After all, they tell us, with the regularity of a clock chime, “Gender is a social construct.” That is meant to confuse and disorient people — like the way the police throw in a “flash bang” grenade into a gang hide-out they are about to raid. Stunned people, who assumed that gender and sex were synonyms, sometimes think, “Oh, then sex is assigned at birth,” and then they are led away as captives to a twisted ideology. This works particularly effectively on the young, who like to think they’ve discovered something new their benighted forebears didn’t know. Don’t be stunned. Realize the trick they’re trying to play on us. They’re trying to get us to accept transsexuality.

Sex is being male or female. Gender is being masculine or feminine. Gender is about dresses or suits and ties, make-up or not, long or short hair. Sex is about chromosomes and private parts. So, gender is to sex like using a fork or chopsticks is to eating. It’s how the culture teaches us to eat or be male or female. Eating is biology. How we eat, with utensils and, if so, what kind, is a product of culture, a “social construct.” In America, we were taught from toddlerhood to use forks. In Korea, they are taught from just as young an age to use........

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