“What is Your Gender Identity?”

"What is Your Gender Identity?"

How would you respond to this question if you were put on the spot? Here's one approach . . .

If I were asked today, I would say something like this: "Unlike sex, "gender identity" is an incoherent and thus meaningless term."

Why do I think "gender identity" is an incoherent term? Here is one reason:

In other words, gender ideologists claim that one's genitals are both A) completely irrelevant to one's gender and B) highly relevant to one's gender. To make both of these claims is incoherent. Here's another thing I might add:

Another idea . . .

Perhaps you could point out that "gender ideology" embraces the regressive sex stereotypes most of us (not only feminists) have been trying to downplay for decades:

A comment to the above tweet:

It really sucks to know that we worked so hard to erase gender stereotypes. Let girls and boys dress how they want, play with whatever toys they wanted, play whatever sports, have whatever interests...boys can dance, girls can be mechanics. We fought so hard. Then this crap.

Or you could invite them to listen to this podcast where Bari Weiss interviews Andrew Sullivan, a pioneer in gay rights.  Sullivan doesn't support gender ideology because it is functionally homophobic. Most children claiming to be confused about their sex will, if left alone (not surgically butchered and rendered sterile by cross-sex hormones) grow up to accept their bodies, the great majority of them growing up to be gay (and see here).  For this reason, Sullivan characterizes gender ideology to be homophobic.

If things heat up too much, you might want to inject some humor:

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The Mischaracterization of LGB Alliance as a Supposed Hate Group

Mia Ashton describes how it happened that lesbians are being attacked and disparaged. Here is an excerpt of her article at Public:

"[F]rom its conception, LGB Alliance was under attack. While Harris describes that first meeting as “joyous,” during which those who had been silenced and called bigots, transphobes, and neo-Nazis basked in the joy of meeting like-minded individuals, the announcement of their group’s formation just days later “unleashed the most extraordinary storm.”

“From that moment onwards, there was an absolute onslaught against us to try and squash us before we started,” recalls Harris. The reason for this was that, at that point, LGB Alliance was the only organization in the world that said it was okay to be gay or lesbian and not believe in gender identity.

In the deluge of abuse that followed, LGB Alliance was repeatedly called a hate group. Harris thinks it was LGB in the name that really made trans activists angry. “That implied that we hated the T. Well, we don’t agree. We think you can have a dogs’ charity who don’t hate cats.”

But according to Harris and Jackson, redefining homosexuality from same-sex attraction to same-gender attraction and insisting that heterosexual men can be lesbians is not the only harmful effect of trans activism on the LGB community.

Because another curious development was that Stonewall, and self-proclaimed LGBTQ+ activists, also started to advocate for the medicalization of adolescents who identify as transgender, many of whom are gay or lesbian. “This is what is happening in schools at the moment,” Jackson explained, “lesbian has become a dirty word. There was a time when being gay or lesbian was becoming more accepted, even among teenagers, but now it is not.” Now lesbians come out first as lesbians, then they call themselves non-binary, and then, “six months later, they’re trying to find testosterone, and they’re trying to have their breasts cut off.”

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Transgender Activism and the Road not Taken

ELIZA MONDEGREEN argues that we could have avoided most of the pandemonium we are currently witnessing about transgenderism. His article is titled: "Trans Activism and the Road Not Taken: The current conflict over trans rights was entirely avoidable."

Here an excerpt from Mondegreen's article, along with Colin Wright's illustration:

A conversation about reasonable accommodations is a nuanced conversation. Instead, we got a radical trans movement that wants to erase sex in law and society, put men in women's prisons and boys in girls' sports, and run an unregulated medical experiment on gender-nonconforming children. This has given rise to an absurd and dystopian reality where men are granted access to women’s prisons, sports, and other protected spaces, and where gender-nonconforming children have become the target of unregulated medical experiments that involve puberty blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, and extreme surgeries.

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