{"id":41002,"date":"2024-11-10T19:32:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=41002"},"modified":"2024-11-10T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T01:32:49","slug":"two-views-on-gender-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2024\/11\/10\/two-views-on-gender-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Views on Gender Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that these tweets by J.K. Rowling and Billboard Chris are mostly entire compatible. And I do think the first and worst mistake we made as a society is allowing a decoupling of sex and gender. First, Billboard Chris:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billboardchris\/status\/1855280098813129114?s=43\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41004\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"912\" height=\"476\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM.png 912w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two sexes, zero genders, and infinite personalities.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018gender\u2019 was fine as a synonym for sex when those of us over the age of 30 were growing up. It\u2019s not anymore. Use the word \u2018sex.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1765822003246768198?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Now Rowling:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The word \u2018transphobic\u2019, as used here, does not mean an irrational fear or dislike of trans people. It means refusing to use gender identity ideology\u2019s jargon, refusing to parrot its slogans, refusing to accept that sex doesn’t matter when it comes to sport and single-sex spaces, refusing to believe a bearded heterosexual man becomes a lesbian when he declares himself one, and refusing to believe an abusive, misogynistic male is a woman because he likes to wear mini-dresses and pout in selfies.<\/p>\n<p>Like every other gender critical person I know, I believe everyone should be free to express themselves however they wish, dress however they please, call themselves whatever they want, sleep with any consenting adult who wishes to sleep with them, and that trans-identified people should have the same protections regarding employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety every other citizen is entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t nearly enough for the dominant strain of trans activism, which asserts that unless freedom of speech is removed from dissenters, unless trans-identified men are permitted to strip away women\u2019s rights, with particular reference to single sex spaces like rape crisis centres, prison cells, hospital wards, changing rooms and public bathrooms, until we all bow down to their neo-religion, accept their pseudo-scientific claims and embrace their circular reasoning, trans people are more oppressed, and more at risk, than any other group in society.<\/p>\n<p>This is nonsense. 99.9% of the world knows it’s nonsense. The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also consider\u00a0the following excerpt from J.K. Rowling\u2019s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2024\/06\/09\/j-k-rowling-explains-why-she-stood-up-for-women\/?highlight=rowling\">The Women Who Wouldn\u2019t Wheesht:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The thing is, those appalled by my position often fail to grasp how truly despicable I find theirs. I\u2019ve watched \u201cno debate\u201d become the slogan of those who once posed as defenders of free speech. I\u2019ve witnessed supposedly progressive men arguing that women don\u2019t exist as an observable biological class and don\u2019t deserve biology-based rights. I\u2019ve listened as certain female celebrities insist that there isn\u2019t the slightest risk to women and girls in allowing any man who self-identifies as a woman to enter single-sex spaces reserved for women, including changing rooms, bathrooms or rape shelters. . . . I\u2019ve asked people who consider themselves socialists and egalitarians what might be the practical consequences of erasing easily understood words like \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d, and replacing them with \u201ccervix-haver\u201d, \u201cmenstruator\u201d and \u201cbirthing parent\u201d, especially for those for whom English is a second language, or women whose understanding of their own bodies is limited. They seem confused and irritated by this question. Better that a hundred women who aren\u2019t up to speed with the latest gender jargon miss public health information than that one trans-identified individual feels invalidated, seems to be the view.\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that these tweets by J.K. Rowling and Billboard Chris are mostly entire compatible. And I do think the first and worst mistake we made as a society is allowing a decoupling of sex and gender. First, Billboard Chris:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billboardchris\/status\/1855280098813129114?s=43\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41004\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"912\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM.png 912w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50\u202fPM-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two sexes, zero genders, and infinite personalities.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe word \u2018gender\u2019 was fine as a synonym for sex when those of us over the age of 30 were growing up. It\u2019s not anymore. Use the word \u2018sex.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1765822003246768198?lang=en\">Now Rowling:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The word \u2018transphobic\u2019, as used here, does not mean an irrational fear or dislike of trans people. It means refusing to use gender identity ideology\u2019s jargon, refusing to parrot its slogans, refusing to accept that sex doesn’t matter when it comes to sport and single-sex spaces, refusing to believe a bearded heterosexual man becomes a lesbian when he declares himself one, and refusing to believe an abusive, misogynistic male is a woman because he likes to wear mini-dresses and pout in selfies.<\/p>\n<p>\nLike every other gender critical person I know, I believe everyone should be free to express themselves however they wish, dress however they please, call themselves whatever they want, sleep with any consenting adult who wishes to sleep with them, and that trans-identified people should have the same protections regarding employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety every other citizen is entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut this isn\u2019t nearly enough for the dominant strain of trans activism, which asserts that unless freedom of speech is removed from dissenters, unless trans-identified men are permitted to strip away women\u2019s rights, with particular reference to single sex spaces like rape crisis centres, prison cells, hospital wards, changing rooms and public bathrooms, until we all bow down to their neo-religion, accept their pseudo-scientific claims and embrace their circular reasoning, trans people are more oppressed, and more at risk, than any other group in society.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is nonsense. 99.9% of the world knows it’s nonsense. The emperor is naked. He might be wearing lipstick, but his balls are swinging in plain sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAlso consider\u00a0the following excerpt from J.K. Rowling\u2019s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2024\/06\/09\/j-k-rowling-explains-why-she-stood-up-for-women\/?highlight=rowling\">The Women Who Wouldn\u2019t Wheesht:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The thing is, those appalled by my position often fail to grasp how truly despicable I find theirs. I\u2019ve watched \u201cno debate\u201d become the slogan of those who once posed as defenders of free speech. I\u2019ve witnessed supposedly progressive men arguing that women don\u2019t exist as an observable biological class and don\u2019t deserve biology-based rights. I\u2019ve listened as certain female celebrities insist that there isn\u2019t the slightest risk to women and girls in allowing any man who self-identifies as a woman to enter single-sex spaces reserved for women, including changing rooms, bathrooms or rape shelters. . . . I\u2019ve asked people who consider themselves socialists and egalitarians what might be the practical consequences of erasing easily understood words like \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d, and replacing them with \u201ccervix-haver\u201d, \u201cmenstruator\u201d and \u201cbirthing parent\u201d, especially for those for whom English is a second language, or women whose understanding of their own bodies is limited. They seem confused and irritated by this question. Better that a hundred women who aren\u2019t up to speed with the latest gender jargon miss public health information than that one trans-identified individual feels invalidated, seems to be the view.\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6599,6123,22,6700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transgender","category-pseudo-science-science","category-sex","category-sex-based-differences","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41006,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41002\/revisions\/41006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}