The U.S. State Department has joined the transgender lobby in gaslighting the country about gender and sex. On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported, “The U.S. State Department has issued the first United States passport with an ‘X’ gender designation. It’s a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don’t identify as male or female.”

Tempting as it may be to shrug this off as yet another part of the “phony culture wars,” as former President Barack Obama recently said, the State Department’s decision is not a milestone. It is fraught with logistical issues and communicates an entirely flawed philosophy about gender and sex, further obliterating a landmark of Western culture: male and female differences. Marking “X” as a person’s gender might seem benign, but all its inferences are troublesome at best and make for a dismal future at worst.