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Originally Posted by Chris
Gender identity ideology - the (nonsensical) claim that one may ‘identify’ as anything other than the male or female they were born as, ostensibly due to the existence of a gender identity (sometimes called a ‘gendered soul’) that may or may not match the biological sex of one’s body.
You might very charitably call it a social science. It is more accurately a neo-religious philosophy. And it is presently infecting great swathes of public life in the western world, with such real-world consequences as women losing places in sports teams to men (who not only claim to be women, and think of themselves as women, but then actually expect everyone else to carry on as if they really are women), women prisoners at risk of harm from men being housed with them, women being told they aren’t allowed to require a woman in intimate or stressful situations such as hospital treatments or rape crisis counselling.
But I’m sure you knew all this already. Feel free to performatively clutch your pearls at this point.  |
Straight to the ad hominem attack. I was going to agree with you about the conflation of "female" individuals that, as most people would agree, need to segregated from females in hospitals, prisons, etc. but then point out there is room to cater for those people that can clearly present as adult women after gender reassignment therapy/surgery. I think this nuance is one that will be lost going forward with the shouting match between the two extreme sides of this debate.
I think the Trump presidency will increase hostility to the idea of Trans individuals given his sponsorship by the Evangelical Right. Remains to be seen if this change will be mirrored here in the UK