Don't Want Transgenders in the Ladies? Abolish Capitalism

In one of his most eloquent outbursts Chesterton denounced the proposal to give doctors the power to make parents 

have their little girls’ hair cut short in the interest of cleanliness and health.  He pointed out that this 
meant the hair of  poor little girls, not of rich little girls.  And he asked, Why not cut off their heads?  

And when it was very pertinently inquired how he thought the lice-problem ought to be dealt with, he replied,
Abolish capitalism.

Floyd Dell on G.K. Chesterton

My research on Dorothy Day’s early journalism led me to the issue of the Free press vs. the Capitalist press before and during the United States’ entry into World War I. The Free press was represented by various groups on the Left (anarchists, IWWs, Marxists, Socialists). They saw great evils in Capitalism and promoted the cause of the Workers and Peace on behalf of the Workers. Focused on a better world for all, the Leftists of 1917 were divided between those who wanted to work within the present system and those who saw the problem as Capitalism itself and wanted to embark on a future with an entirely new foundation.

Nevertheless, the militarists, that tiny minority of the population pushing for war controlled the Capitalist press and were able to convince Wilson that war was good for business. Once war was declared, the proponents of Peace encountered the fiery wrath of President Wilson. Hundreds were imprisoned and over 2,000 publications were closed by the Federal government. Wilson’s reign of terror was coordinated with propaganda from the Capitalist press to out, shame and persecute those who think differently.

The N.C. bathroom episode illustrates how the landscape has changed. The LGBT community, representing itself as the Left while controlling the Free press, is now working quite comfortably in partnership with the Capitalist press and the support of the President of the United States to convince corporations that transgender bathrooms are good for business and are intent to out, shame and persecute those who think differently.

In his book Gender Ivan Illich makes the curious point that Capitalism inevitably leads to gender obfuscation. Does this episode of public bathrooms affirm Illych’s thesis? Should those who want to return to the days of old-fashioned men’s and women’s bathrooms be advocating the overthrow of Capitalism?