The longer the beast has resisted challenge, the stronger it has become. The ideological basis for gender identity ( and its extension, to “ fluidity “) well deserves its overdue confrontation and acknowledgement as the social science cull de sac into which Medicine has been inexplicably lead. Linguistic manipulation of the social activists has been an effective tool , by taking their lead, as perhaps , as we recently might have seen suggested, replacing “ gender incongruity/ dysphoria “ with “ transgender ideation “ would be a good start?
The important part is not to use “gender dysphoria” which presents it as a medical issue and hence medical intervention. I believe their point was using “trans” is redundant, “gender ideology” or "gender ideation" already means “trans”. Hence, there’s no reason to include it in the term, and “gender ideology” is already used and understood. Probably not that big a deal.
To whom you are attracted sexually is purely subjective and therefore cannot reasonably be contested by an outside observer.
Where you decide to live your life on a spectrum of superficial, stereotypical male to female attributes (and we all do) is also purely subjective and similarly cannot be questioned.
However, your biological sex reflects an objective reality which cannot be changed by your subjective personal view and futile attempts to do so can result in serious health impacts to you as well as harms to members of the sex you are impersonating (primarily women).
Others who are grounded in objective reality should never be forced to accept your subjective version of your actual biological sex.
Finally, it's past time for the LGB community to separate themselves from the trans activists who are trying to take away the rights of women to fairness in sports and to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. They also advocate for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children many of whom would grow up gay.
Their actions are evil and the
understandable negative reaction to the harm they are causing is spilling over to innocent people who are just going about their business, marrying and leading their lives.
At what point does "first do no harm" come into play? The actions of the medical community raise serious medical and also legal issues. To my knowledge, there were no legal repercussions for advocating and performing frontal lobotomies but I think that would not be the case today. There seems to me to be a real potential for major lawsuits and at the extreme perhaps even criminal proceedings for child abuse. Where there's a lawyer, there's a way.
If some people can be persuaded to believe such obvious nonsense which goes against all reality and logic, then they can also be persuaded to believe anything else that a dictator tells them. Herein lies the danger of the trans ideology.
“Transgenderism” may be a social construct, but my breast development is not. I will never be a biological woman, but I am literally a female, thanks to the great state of NY. Gender roles, are just that, gender roles. We cannot defer to other people’s opinions of what makes someone masculine or feminine, as it is in the eye of the beholder. My male anatomy was never enough for many to consider me masculine, and I’m not going to take a survey of the same people, to see if they think my breasts are feminine, they are, but could not
have grown them without hormone therapy, but I assure you that they are real. Denying those facts is a choice.
No you're not literally female. Even the breast of a man, hormone injected to the appearance of a female breast hasn't got the same internal structure or capability. Nor are you or have been capable of producting eggs, which is one of the major criteria that determines being female. In my culture the idea that you are 'masculine' or 'feminine' is not a consideration - whatever westerners call masculine or feminine - we all engage in activities that could be called by either definition on a daily basis. In my culture there is no 'he' or 'she' pronouns or gendered names. A person is considered unique - but sex is real and artificial manipulation via synthetic hormones doesn't change sex.
I'm not saying this to reject you as a person - but truth is - that which really is. And truth not fiction more than any other time is what is we need today.
Lol, that's a man's perspective of what makes us women. Men are obsessed with women's bodies, especially our secondary sex characteristics. Even male transgenders can't let go of the very shallow belief that titties are what we're all about. Like that idiot Biden invited to our nation's capital who flashed his fake tits on the White House lawn. That's the kind of thing men believe women should do, which is why a male transgender who thinks (or wishes) he was a woman did it. He doesn't want to be a women, he wants women to be what men think a women should be like.
So sorry dude, you'll never be a woman. You're just a man with artificial boobs. If you cut off your penis, you're still not a woman. We are not dickless men.
But I hope you have a good life without having to force your way into women's spaces. (Yet another very male thing to do.)
The longer the beast has resisted challenge, the stronger it has become. The ideological basis for gender identity ( and its extension, to “ fluidity “) well deserves its overdue confrontation and acknowledgement as the social science cull de sac into which Medicine has been inexplicably lead. Linguistic manipulation of the social activists has been an effective tool , by taking their lead, as perhaps , as we recently might have seen suggested, replacing “ gender incongruity/ dysphoria “ with “ transgender ideation “ would be a good start?
I have seen "gender ideation" proposed leaving out the trans entirely.
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How does that work? Gender ideology is all about not accepting your body as it was “ assigned at birth”, isn’t it?
The important part is not to use “gender dysphoria” which presents it as a medical issue and hence medical intervention. I believe their point was using “trans” is redundant, “gender ideology” or "gender ideation" already means “trans”. Hence, there’s no reason to include it in the term, and “gender ideology” is already used and understood. Probably not that big a deal.
To whom you are attracted sexually is purely subjective and therefore cannot reasonably be contested by an outside observer.
Where you decide to live your life on a spectrum of superficial, stereotypical male to female attributes (and we all do) is also purely subjective and similarly cannot be questioned.
However, your biological sex reflects an objective reality which cannot be changed by your subjective personal view and futile attempts to do so can result in serious health impacts to you as well as harms to members of the sex you are impersonating (primarily women).
Others who are grounded in objective reality should never be forced to accept your subjective version of your actual biological sex.
Finally, it's past time for the LGB community to separate themselves from the trans activists who are trying to take away the rights of women to fairness in sports and to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. They also advocate for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children many of whom would grow up gay.
Their actions are evil and the
understandable negative reaction to the harm they are causing is spilling over to innocent people who are just going about their business, marrying and leading their lives.
Evil! Yes!
At what point does "first do no harm" come into play? The actions of the medical community raise serious medical and also legal issues. To my knowledge, there were no legal repercussions for advocating and performing frontal lobotomies but I think that would not be the case today. There seems to me to be a real potential for major lawsuits and at the extreme perhaps even criminal proceedings for child abuse. Where there's a lawyer, there's a way.
If some people can be persuaded to believe such obvious nonsense which goes against all reality and logic, then they can also be persuaded to believe anything else that a dictator tells them. Herein lies the danger of the trans ideology.
“Transgenderism” may be a social construct, but my breast development is not. I will never be a biological woman, but I am literally a female, thanks to the great state of NY. Gender roles, are just that, gender roles. We cannot defer to other people’s opinions of what makes someone masculine or feminine, as it is in the eye of the beholder. My male anatomy was never enough for many to consider me masculine, and I’m not going to take a survey of the same people, to see if they think my breasts are feminine, they are, but could not
have grown them without hormone therapy, but I assure you that they are real. Denying those facts is a choice.
No you're not literally female. Even the breast of a man, hormone injected to the appearance of a female breast hasn't got the same internal structure or capability. Nor are you or have been capable of producting eggs, which is one of the major criteria that determines being female. In my culture the idea that you are 'masculine' or 'feminine' is not a consideration - whatever westerners call masculine or feminine - we all engage in activities that could be called by either definition on a daily basis. In my culture there is no 'he' or 'she' pronouns or gendered names. A person is considered unique - but sex is real and artificial manipulation via synthetic hormones doesn't change sex.
I'm not saying this to reject you as a person - but truth is - that which really is. And truth not fiction more than any other time is what is we need today.
Look, I have tits. That MAKES me a woman!”
Lol, that's a man's perspective of what makes us women. Men are obsessed with women's bodies, especially our secondary sex characteristics. Even male transgenders can't let go of the very shallow belief that titties are what we're all about. Like that idiot Biden invited to our nation's capital who flashed his fake tits on the White House lawn. That's the kind of thing men believe women should do, which is why a male transgender who thinks (or wishes) he was a woman did it. He doesn't want to be a women, he wants women to be what men think a women should be like.
So sorry dude, you'll never be a woman. You're just a man with artificial boobs. If you cut off your penis, you're still not a woman. We are not dickless men.
But I hope you have a good life without having to force your way into women's spaces. (Yet another very male thing to do.)