RE: Understanding transgenderism.
April 28, 2021 at 11:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2021 at 11:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
When I think something is super interesting, I tend not to shut up about it, it's true.
I think it's interesting that gender identity has become such a useful item of the culture war that we find ourselves entertaining untenable notions like biological essentialism in gender. We know that's not true, we know that it can't even be true, and yet, here we are - for so many different reasons, saying that it is.
To give you very different examples of something - that the explanation of gender lies in it's fitness as an idea, not it's truth - pure utility -
A transgender person might argue for the biological essentialism of their state of affairs because they feel it grants a toe hold for that state of affairs equality, for it's naturalness™. Or maybe because they feel as though the gender they identify as is just as genuine, just as earnestly felt.
A nutjob might argue for biological essentialism because they been guzzling haterade their whole life and biologically, essentially, that trans person is just a sick yucky dude.
I think it's interesting that gender identity has become such a useful item of the culture war that we find ourselves entertaining untenable notions like biological essentialism in gender. We know that's not true, we know that it can't even be true, and yet, here we are - for so many different reasons, saying that it is.
To give you very different examples of something - that the explanation of gender lies in it's fitness as an idea, not it's truth - pure utility -
A transgender person might argue for the biological essentialism of their state of affairs because they feel it grants a toe hold for that state of affairs equality, for it's naturalness™. Or maybe because they feel as though the gender they identify as is just as genuine, just as earnestly felt.
A nutjob might argue for biological essentialism because they been guzzling haterade their whole life and biologically, essentially, that trans person is just a sick yucky dude.
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