We are no longer a serious society. For example: On March 1st — amidst the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine — CBS News published complete nonsense that it believed was way more important.
The subject of the ridiculous piece was laid out in a post on Twitter, which read:
“Transgender acceptance in Ukraine is not widespread, and changing legal documents to match gender requires a long process with psychiatric examinations. CBS News spoke with one woman in Kyiv who is now battling a ‘war within a war’ amid Russia’s invasion.”
Transgender acceptance in Ukraine is not widespread, and changing legal documents to match gender requires a long process with psychiatric examinations. CBS News spoke with one woman in Kyiv who is now battling a "war within a war" amid Russia's invasion https://t.co/DJ6vFwmLuR pic.twitter.com/7Qp4eTCGMt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 1, 2022
The post linked to a short article entitled “‘A War Within a War’: Transgender Woman Says Transphobia and Discriminatory Laws Keeping Her Hostage in Kyiv During Russian Invasion.”
“Zi Faámelu was born and raised in Crimea, an area of Ukraine that was invaded and taken over by Russia in 2014,” the report began. “Now the 31-year-old lives in Kyiv, the capital city that has been under Russian siege for nearly a week. She is running out of food and hasn’t left her house for days as gunfire erupts outside.”
“She says she can’t leave,” CBS noted.
Faámelu, who is transgender, said that transphobia is pervasive in the city and neighboring countries, and fears that if she leaves, the tension of the ongoing conflict will make her more susceptible to violence. Faámelu was previously a popular contestant on the Ukrainian singing competition show “Star Factory.”
Zi Faámelu is unwilling to conform to his biological sex in order to escape:
If she makes it to the border of a neighboring country offering refuge, she’s not even sure if they’ll let her in, as her passport identification does not match her gender. The LGBTQ community has become more visible and accepted over the years, but for transgender people, it’s more complicated.
To be clear, Ukrainians can get IDs with their “chosen sex” on them, but that requires a simple protocol that Zi Faámelu has refused to undergo:
Legislation was introduced in 2017 to lessen the process, but still would require that transgender Ukrainians undergo outpatient psychiatric examinations.
“I don’t want to go through that. This is like, humiliating for the world,” the shut-in explained. “I decided to keep my passport, keep male in my passport, and now I cannot leave this country.”
“There’s no way Ukrainian border people can let me through,” Faámelu said.
Obviously, everyone in Ukraine deserves our prayers, including Faámelu, in these difficult times.
But in a time when the country is being invaded and people are being killed, the fact that CBS News is more concerned with “transgender” people who refuse to take off their wig so they can escape to safety is objectively ridiculous. In the past, people would cut off their own arm to escape to safety. They would give up everything they own for freedom. They would lay down their lives to save others. And these people wouldn’t even wipe off their makeup to make it through a checkpoint. The fact that CBS News thinks that this is important and brave proves one thing: the Western world is no longer a serious place.
