Michael Brown complained in his July 27 WorldNetDaily column:
Speaking to a group of disability advocates, and wanting to be thoughtful of those who were blind or vision impaired, Vice President Kamala Harris began her talk by saying, “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.” But what, exactly, did she mean by those words? What, after all, is a woman? And what do we learn about Harris from her preferred gender pronouns?
In raising these questions, my purpose is not to mock the vice president. Rather, it is to mock the cultural madness that set the stage for her comments. We must not become accustomed to this social insanity!
To be sure, others found VP Harris’ comments to be quite condescending, including Mary Chastain, who describes herself as nearly vision impaired.
[…]Indeed, unless you were living under a rock, you would know that the vice president is a woman regardless of whether you were seeing or blind.
Ah, but mocking her is exactly Brown’s point (the denials are a common tactic he uses). He seems determined to gloss over the fact that Harris was using those descriptors for the benefit of the “blind or vision impaired” — which Brown himself noted at the beginning of his column — and mindlessly join the homophobic right-wingers piling on Harris. Indeed, Brown went on a rant about Harris referencing her preferred pronouns:
As for Harris’ preferred gender pronouns, the fact that she felt it proper to share that information reminds us yet again of how deeply we have fallen off the cliff of reality.
We should be alarmed. We should be shaking our heads. We should be asking how on earth we got to this point.
The vice president of the United States giving her preferred gender pronouns at the beginning of her talk? Really? (For another shocking illustration of just how far we have fallen, see my article, “Biden Administration is a Vivid Illustration of LGBTQ+ Activism on Steroids.”)
Of course today, a woman could say, “My name is Rachel, and my pronouns are he-his,” since Rachel might choose to live as a woman and yet identify as a man. Why not?
These pronouns simply explain how we want people to refer to us. They tell us nothing about their biological sex.
Then, after attacking transgender people lilke Lia Thomas, Brown again denied doing so:
I do not deprecate those who genuinely struggle with gender identity issues, as I have said time and time again. My heart goes out to them in their struggles.
And I do pray for God’s best for the vice president. May the Lord guide her into all truth!
But I absolutely will continue to draw attention to the cultural madness into which we are descending. And I will continue to shout, “The emperor has no clothes!”
This is becoming more and more evident every day. Let’s keep shouting!
By shouting his hatred of transgender people, Brown is very much deprecating and mocking. All his denials don’t change that.