Masculinity at Its Most Toxic

The New York Times runs a long tragic profile of an ex-man blocked by Trump from expressing true femininity by killing people and breaking things with heavy artillery.

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From the New York Times new section, a classic example of the kind of dishonest articles the prestige press has been running about toxically masculine autogynephiles for decades.

Virtually nobody ever gets how fake and not gay these profiles of ultra-masculine guys who eventually realize after they acquire a wife, kids, and a career in killing people and breaking things that they were always a girl on the inside.

The Army Was the Only Life She Knew. Trump’s Trans Ban Cast Her Out.

Maj. Erica Vandal’s superiors called her “a superb officer.” The president said transgender soldiers like her lack the “honesty,” “humility” and “integrity” to serve.

By Greg Jaffe

Reporting from Fort Drum, N.Y.

June 16, 2025

Maj. Erica [Eric] Vandal had just finished briefing 200 soldiers on her [his] brigade’s plan to employ artillery fire in a big combat training exercise. …

You can’t get much more truly feminine than devoting your life to artillery fire.

The justices had ruled that President Trump could immediately begin expelling transgender troops from the military. Major Vandal, 36, and thousands of others would be forced out.

It didn’t seem real. She found it hard to conceive of a life outside the Army. The daughter [son] of a three-star general, she had grown up on bases around the world and thought of them collectively as home. She [he] had been a West Point cadet, an artillery officer and a Bronze Star recipient for her service in Afghanistan.

In combat, she [he] had taken cover in concrete bunkers from incoming Taliban rockets and, alongside her troops, fired back at the enemy. …

Major Vandal began driving to her house on the other side of Fort Drum, N.Y., where her [his] wife and two children were waiting.

The New York Times has devoted very little sympathy over the last dozen years to the wives and children of these sex fetishists. This long article about how Major Vandal is a tragic victim is no different.

… Major Vandal’s first sense that she was living in the wrong body had come when she was 6 and playing with friends on an Army base in Texas.

“I wish I was a girl,” she recalled telling them. She said they stared at her in disbelief. In a military community that prized conformity and conservative values, she quickly learned that it was not acceptable, and even shameful, to be different.

This is lifted straight from James/Jan Morris equally slippery 1974 memoir Conundrum. One memory of once wanting to be a girl proves you really were a girl all along despite an entire lifetime of acting extremely masculine.

But no need to mention how at puberty you started dressing up in your mom’s lingerie and masturbating in front of the mirror. The New York Times has only mentioned the autogynephilia fetish twice in its history, and not since 2019. It’s not breaking that streak in this long article, either.

In the years that followed, she tried to fit in by emulating her father, a former Army general.

“The best man I’ve ever known,” she called him. He was happy, well liked and successful. Maybe she could be, too, if she followed his path?

She [he] became the star of her high school [boys] wrestling team, just like her father.

See, she was just faking being the school’s star male wrestler to cover up how feminine she was. That happens all the time! It makes perfect sense that a feminine boy becomes the best wrestler at a military school because how many truly masculine boys want to be their school’s star wrestler?

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