I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If perception is substituted for reality, there is no end to the social madness that follows.

You do not just have a man being named Woman of the Year.

You do not just have a white woman who identifies as black.

You have a father of 7 who identifies as a 6-year-old girl.

You have a man who identifies as a dog named “Boomer.”

You have a young lady who believes she is a cat trapped in a woman’s body.

You have a man who has his ears removed because he identifies as a parrot.

And you have a man who changed his identity to female but who has now had “her ears and nose REMOVED to transform into a ‘dragon lady’ with scales, a forked tongue and a horned skull.”

But why not? More power to him/her/it! If that’s what he/she/it perceives himself/herself/itself to be, why not?

As reported by the Daily Mail:

• Eva Tiamat Medusa, 55, from Maricopa County, Arizona, was born a man [named Richard Hernandez]
• Now lives as a woman and has undergone extensive surgery
• Her ‘mythical beast’ transformation includes a full-face tattoo and ‘horns’

The tragedy is that this is not a laughing matter. Take a moment and check out Medusa’s pictures, not just the utterly bizarre, current shots but an earlier one, where we see bearded, smiling Richard Hernandez proudly holding his son Marcos. (One can only wonder what Marcos thinks of his dad today.)

Medusa explains, “I am the Dragon Lady, A pre-op M2F (male to female) transgender in the process of morphing into a human dragon, becoming a reptoid as I shed my human skin and my physical appearance and my life as a whole leaving my humanness behind,” adding, that her “most natural self awareness as a mythical beast.”

Richard-Eva-Medusa actually has a large Facebook following, but regardless of popularity or notoriety, he/she/it reminds us of the terrible danger of mistaking perception for reality, especially when the rest of the world is supposed to accept that perception as reality.

The hard cold facts are that there is no more evidence that Richard is a woman than there is that Richard is a dragon. Or, to bring in the case of Bruce-Caitlyn Jenner, there is no more evidence that Richard is a dragon than there is that Bruce is a woman (or Rachel Dolezal is black or the cat woman is a cat or the parrot man is a parrot).

People like this deserve our pity and prayers. To celebrate them is to do them a terrible disservice.

* Updated with new video.