RE: Understanding transgenderism.
April 26, 2021 at 11:53 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2021 at 1:36 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I think in many traditional societies, gender is not about self-expression or the mode with which one may chose to interact with others, but about how one is perceived to be physically equipped to help expand and reinforce the family and tribe against decimation by disease, natural disaster, conflict and warfare, and the duty to use these equipment towards furthering those goals.
In this context, gender roles is part of necessary social regimentation, not individual expression. viewed through this lens transgenderism is most certainly a choice, to not fulfill duties perceived to come with one’s physical equipment. Much as one can be drafted to serve in certain military by virtual of being born in a certain place, so one can be expected to act certain parts if one is born with a certain configuration of genitalia. Transgenderism might be seen as draft dodging.
ironically, those who abhor transgenderism are also the once who are most likely to use “socialism” as a curse word. Yet resistance to transgenderism seems to me to have its ultimate basis in a primeval form of socialism.
In this context, gender roles is part of necessary social regimentation, not individual expression. viewed through this lens transgenderism is most certainly a choice, to not fulfill duties perceived to come with one’s physical equipment. Much as one can be drafted to serve in certain military by virtual of being born in a certain place, so one can be expected to act certain parts if one is born with a certain configuration of genitalia. Transgenderism might be seen as draft dodging.
ironically, those who abhor transgenderism are also the once who are most likely to use “socialism” as a curse word. Yet resistance to transgenderism seems to me to have its ultimate basis in a primeval form of socialism.
