If any of our readers thought that the absurd, insane, and completely irrational gender ideology was going to quietly fade away anytime soon, the latest Dalrymple The Epoch Times column should serve as an unpleasant wake-up call.

The bureaucrat who asks the question from obedience and fear for his position comes to believe that he’s engaged in important work of social reform. There’s no one as shameless as a bureaucrat following orders who has persuaded himself that those orders are for the good of humanity.