The dress does not make the man a woman - even if you're an intelligence officer

Is this the type of person you want to protect your family and country? 

Perhaps it’s time that American citizens question the caliber of people being recruited for the country’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Government officials recently decided that high on the priority list of required reading for intelligence and law enforcement officers is an article by one intelligence officer who believes that cross-dressing helps him do his job better. 

I dress therefore I am - female

“My Gender Identity and Expression Make Me a Better Intelligence Officer” is the title of an article in a newsletter called “The Dive” sent to all law enforcement and intelligence agencies, wrote PJ Media’s Rick Moran in his report on the article. The anonymous intelligence officer who authored the article in “The Dive” argued that intelligence officers need to understand diversity and inclusivity and cross-dressing is the way to do it.  

“I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,” the article claims. The officer says that his decision to crossdress “merits attention given the climate of discussion around the topic and where it sits in the larger conversation about gender identity and expression and professional appearance.”

“I think my experiences as someone who crossdresses have sharpened the skills I use as an intelligence officer,” the anonymous author claims. He says he's now “more aware of, and hopefully more supportive of, my women colleagues" because he now has a “better appreciation for how it can be uncomfortable to wear women’s clothes sometimes.”

“I know firsthand how wearing heels can make your feet hurt and make it take longer to walk somewhere,” he says. (Emphases added.)

Better in women's clothes?

The officer believes that cross-dressing not only helps him understand women but also helps him understand clandestine assets better:

In addition to empowering him as an ally, the author says that his experience as a crossdresser has made him “better at understanding clandestine assets and their motivations” and “at understanding foreign actors.”

An ODNI spokeswoman confirmed that the newsletter was sent out to every element of the Intelligence Community. (Emphases added.)

Calling the assertion that wearing women’s clothing makes one better at understanding clandestine assets “horse crap,” Moran concludes with the following lament that while the intelligence community is celebrating diversity and inclusion jihadists will come into the country and kill Americans. If only the terrorist cross-dressed:

It's terribly sad, really. While guys like this are celebrating their diversity and inclusion, some jihadist is going to slip into the country and kill a lot of Americans.

If only the terrorist had been a crossdresser, our intelligence officer could have understood him and stopped him. (Emphasis added.)

Distracting fellow officers from their work

Moran also quoted the Daily Wire, which had obtained the newsletter through the Freedom of Information Act, reporting on the anonymous officer’s predilection for women’s attire. 

The anonymous intelligence officer also admits that crossdressing in the workplace causes a distraction within the intelligence office, but he pleads that those around him will grow more supportive of his choice to wear women’s clothes.

“When I crossdress it still distracts people, even though it is professional,” he writes. “It is my hope that we can learn to accept a wider range of gender identities and expressions.”

The anonymous intelligence official went into even greater depth on his crossdressing habits. “Although I like wearing a bra, I know it isn’t comfortable for everyone, and is less comfortable after a few hours,” the stunning document from the office of the United States’ most powerful intelligence official reads. “On top of the biases that women often face at work, it must be hard to be uncomfortable too.” (Emphasis added.)

Commenting on what generally happens if someone's attire causes a distraction in the office, Moran quipped:

Where I have worked, if you cause a "distraction" because of the way you're dressed, you're told to go home and change.

Men in a dress are not women

Are women only defined by the clothes they wear? Is it possible that wearing women’s dresses, bras, and shoes can enable men to understand their unique life experiences? Wearing a dress, for example, does not cause men think like women. 

Gregory L. Jantz Ph.D., in an article for Psychology Today, describes the diametrically opposed ways men and women process information, something not altered by cross-dressing. 

Male brains utilize nearly 7 times more gray matter for activity while female brains utilize nearly 10 times more white matter. What does this mean?

Gray matter areas of the brain are localized. They are information- and action-processing centers in specific splotches in a specific area of the brain. This can translate to a kind of tunnel vision when they are doing something. Once they are deeply engaged in a task or game, they may not demonstrate much sensitivity to other people or their surroundings.

White matter is the networking grid that connects the brain’s gray matter and other processing centers with one another. This profound brain-processing difference is probably one reason you may have noticed that girls tend to more quickly transition between tasks than boys do. The gray-white matter difference may explain why, in adulthood, females are great multi-taskers, while men excel in highly task-focused projects. (Emphases added.)

Further, wearing a dress did not enable him to mystically understand all the experiences and ways of functioning and relating that are unique to girls and women throughout their lifetime. This was perfectly captured in the poem “I am not a dress,” written by a 14-year-old Irish girl and women's rights activist in Ireland with X username "Brandubh" and recited by her in the video below:

The following is the text of her poem, which was provided by Holly Ash of Not the Bee: 

I Am Not a Dress:

We are women, we are warriors of steel,

Woman is something no man will ever feel,

Woman is not a skill that any man can hone,

Woman is our word, and it is ours alone,

I am not a dress to be worn on a whim,

A man in a dress is nonetheless a him,

Women are not simply what we wear,

If this offends you, I do not care,

I am not an idea in any man's mind,

And my purpose in life is not to be kind,

So when my rights are trampled every day of the week,

I will not stand by being docile and meek,

I am not defined by sexists eyes,

There is more to a woman than that shallow guise,

That guise of dresses, bikinis, and skirts,

Those clothes are not what womanhood is worth,

I am not a b****, a terf, a whore, a slag,

Hysterical, a witch, a slut, a hag,

No, I am a woman, I'm a female,

Who will not her rights be put up for sale,

I am not defined by what men are not,

So to Hell with cis misogynistic rot,

I am a woman, I'm not a subset of my sex,

If this makes me a dinosaur, so be it, I'm a t-rex,

I am not a bleeder, nor a menstruator,

A womb carrier or a uterus haver,

Those words and phrases are such a sham,

Just call me woman, it is who I am,

We are women, we are warriors of steel,

Woman is something no man will ever feel,

Woman is not a skill that any man can hone,

Woman is our word, and it is ours alone 

Following the poem Ash commented about men who claim to have become women:

. . . the patriarchy is literally taking over womanhood by "becoming" women themselves.

Such odd times, and this poem just destroys the modern narrative.