At present, gender ideology—a denial of material reality akin to creationism—is enthusiastically embraced by the left, from bourgeois liberals and putative progressives to self-described socialists and revolutionaries. Gender ideology posits that biology has nothing to do with what sex you are, and that the undefinable and entirely subjective notion of “gender identity” is more tangible and fundamental way to categorize people both socially and legally. Gender activists go even further in asserting that the two sexes—male and female—are not real biological categories, but are instead arbitrary “social constructs” that were created solely to oppress women and racial minorities. These beliefs are maintained despite the fact that over 99.98 percent of humans are immediately categorizable as unambiguously male or female at birth.

Gender ideologues are notorious for word games and language manipulation. When it suits them, the word “gender” is used as a synonym for “sex.” At other times, and depending on the context, gender is taken to refer to roles and behaviors stereotypically associated with being male or female. And, when all else fails, gender is interpreted as an ethereal inner essence, like a soul, that cannot be directly observed or studied, but must be taken at face value as real and only knowable from a first-person perspective. Together, these inconsistent, overlapping definitions are used by gender ideologists to resist being pinned down, to evade addressing logical contradictions, and to dismiss material reality.

What makes the gender subterfuge so effective is that gender is simultaneously cast as separate from and synonymous with sex. When seen as separate, it’s argued that a person’s gender expression—stereotypical behaviors and preferences associated with being male or female—can only be arrived at by a conscious individual sometime after birth. But as “gender” is also used as a surrogate for “sex,” an inability to pin down a person’s chosen gender expression immediately upon emerging from the womb is used to argue that biological sex itself cannot be determined at birth (let alone in utero!). Instead, gender ideologues insist that doctors simply “assign” a gender and/or sex to infants, where there is again endless equivocation between sexual anatomy and social roles.

All of this would amount to little more than bizarre navel gazing was it not for the fact that gender ideology, when allowed to influence policy, has significant negative impacts on women, gays, lesbians, children, free speech, freedom of religion, and democratic rights.
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/on-gender-the-left-is-shooting-itself

Gender ideologists have also pushed for changes to language that demean and marginalize women. The very definition of the word “woman” (Woman: Adult human female) is now considered transphobic. The term “breast feeding” is to be replaced with “chest feeding” to allow for the possibility that men might join in this exclusively female function. “Mothers” must be referred to as “birthing parents”. Those needing to be screened for cervical cancer are not to be called women but “cervix havers.”

The words of the prophets are written on the fringe walls... Cassandra was a fringe view holder - yet Athens fell...

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 30^th, 2022 at 7:41am:



Like wise dipstick

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 30^th, 2022 at 8:39am:


What a stupid ...no ...idiotic statement.

aquascoot wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 8:44pm:

Not so, see below.

aquascoot wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 8:44pm:

An absurd, irrelevant analogy which has nothing to do with gender.

Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
have identified 21 gene variants that could link to gender dysphoria.
"Twenty-one variants in 19 genes have been found in estrogen signaling
pathways of the brain critical to establishing whether the brain is
masculine or feminine," says Dr. J. Graham Theisen, the lead author
of the paper. The genes studied in this research are responsible for
the masculinisation of the brain right before and after birth. As a large
portion of human brain development actually happens after birth, the
gene expression during this period is exceptionally critical.

Mutations at these specific genes could express themselves in a much
more complex way. It is safe to say that not all members of the transgender
community have the gene variants studied in this research. In fact, only
around 0.5% to 1.4% of individuals born male and 0.2% to 0.3% of
individuals born female meet the criteria for gender dysphoria.

—https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200205084203.htm et al.

Frank wrote on Sep 30^th, 2022 at 12:17pm:


I get you are stupid, scared, and sexually insecure.  How are you stupid enough to think that any of yuor links are credible?