This is such a sanity-creating piece! Thank you for collecting all of this.
I saw people start making the argument that biological sex was socially constructed back in 2020, but I imagine it started somewhere, and it probably started earlier, too.
Haha. Even back in 2016 when I said "Biological sex is real" on Facebook, people came out of the woodwork to scold and shame me and ask why I had become a right-wing Christian (I had not)....
I read this months ago and just spent a half hour looking for it again. So valuable.
I constantly see overly righteous complete morons insert themselves into this discussion with a great big sigh of "UGHH, could you please educate yourself!? No one is saying biological sex doesn't exist. Learn the difference between sex and gender and come back"
The whole damn movement espouses this nonsense, and even if they didn't, it is clear their position is that nonsensical ideas about gender are of paramount importance and sex should be ignored.
It’s genuinely good work to compile things like this. Gaslighting is one of the primary strategies progressive activists use when trying to manufacture consent. At this point, the whole pipeline from “it’s not happening” to “it is happening but here’s why that’s good” is a meme, but they still haven’t caught on that others have seen through the playbook.
Tbh I’m against gender theory wholesale - even “mainstream” trans opinion is radical. It’s important to call out the slippery slope of this ideology every time one of its adherents inevitably starts sliding even further down the slope of irrationality.
This is just like what they say when it comes to guns - “No one’s talking about taking your guns!”, when in fact prominent (at the time) Dems like Beto O’Rourke and (at the time) candidate Biden either outright said they were, or supported things like bans on semi auto weapons - which, to anyone who knows anything, is effectively a ban on the firearms most people own.
Thanks for doing some background work. This response has always driven me up a wall because I was onboard this movement up through the "gender is the social elements of it and sex the biological ones, but jumped off after that. And then people will claim "no we never moved beyond that at all", which is crazy.
Thank you for compiling this archive. I have noticed the tendency of activists to deny the biological reality of sex, and also to deny that anyone would make such a ridiculous claim. But I suspect the matter will sort itself out, with the activists getting on the same page and agreeing to either affirm or deny biological sex. Or am I giving them too much credit?
Gaslighting meets delusion, as in trans A saying “you don’t understand what trans B is saying” - both are delusional, and inducting you into their Vampiric mental-energy sapping hall of mirrors. Assume anything said is a lie, including “I am lying” and it’s much easier. There is no “truth value” in utterances from deluded people. There is only desire to indict you into the delusion system.
The real question is do you understand that both people are delusional - trans A man thinks they have a female brain perhaps, and another trans B man thinks they are a woman.
The only non-delusional trans I know understand they have radical discomfort with their genitalia, it will never go away, and that they are indeed men.
It’s sort like AA “I recognize I’m an alcoholic and there’s no cure, but I can manage it.” You have to recognize that you’re delusional. That’s hard.
My "notes on trans" covering 4 decades of listening to the stuff seems to identify 7 hierarchical levels of delusion (attempts to deny simple reality - women exist and are not men) from self-delusional men "having a period", men self-masking with makeup and wigs, to men requiring a doctor (surgery or hormones) then medical establishment (WPATH) then to combinations of establishments in a domain (WPATH and AMA and APA) then cross-domain (and IOC and Schools and Legislation) and arriving at broad reality-denying language changes (trans men redefining the word woman, pronouns, “person giving birth”) - it’s startling, but at each and every level it’s simply denying that women exist. So at any level you look at it, it’s no more complex than someone saying someone not a woman is a woman, and that saying women exist is offensive.
Many don't but have no choice . Or they hope to 'get it to work' ie "maybe he will help with the housework , babysit more , do the cooking etc." . Surprise surprise he doesn't and is more likely to spend money on clothes and makeup . Which reveals the deep woman-hatred behind this kind of thing .
If you are a former biology teacher you haven't been afflicted with recent mad curriculum changes ! It may not be possible to tell the truth nowadays ?
So glad you have all these receipts! One day historians will need them to figure out what the heck happened in the early 2000s.
Home internet made a lot of people go crazy.
This is such a sanity-creating piece! Thank you for collecting all of this.
I saw people start making the argument that biological sex was socially constructed back in 2020, but I imagine it started somewhere, and it probably started earlier, too.
Haha. Even back in 2016 when I said "Biological sex is real" on Facebook, people came out of the woodwork to scold and shame me and ask why I had become a right-wing Christian (I had not)....
I read this months ago and just spent a half hour looking for it again. So valuable.
I constantly see overly righteous complete morons insert themselves into this discussion with a great big sigh of "UGHH, could you please educate yourself!? No one is saying biological sex doesn't exist. Learn the difference between sex and gender and come back"
The whole damn movement espouses this nonsense, and even if they didn't, it is clear their position is that nonsensical ideas about gender are of paramount importance and sex should be ignored.
Thank you for an excellent piece.
It’s genuinely good work to compile things like this. Gaslighting is one of the primary strategies progressive activists use when trying to manufacture consent. At this point, the whole pipeline from “it’s not happening” to “it is happening but here’s why that’s good” is a meme, but they still haven’t caught on that others have seen through the playbook.
Tbh I’m against gender theory wholesale - even “mainstream” trans opinion is radical. It’s important to call out the slippery slope of this ideology every time one of its adherents inevitably starts sliding even further down the slope of irrationality.
This is just like what they say when it comes to guns - “No one’s talking about taking your guns!”, when in fact prominent (at the time) Dems like Beto O’Rourke and (at the time) candidate Biden either outright said they were, or supported things like bans on semi auto weapons - which, to anyone who knows anything, is effectively a ban on the firearms most people own.
Thanks for doing some background work. This response has always driven me up a wall because I was onboard this movement up through the "gender is the social elements of it and sex the biological ones, but jumped off after that. And then people will claim "no we never moved beyond that at all", which is crazy.
I just referred someone at The Free Press who is arguing that no one thinks trans people can literally change sex to this article.
Wow! That’s discouraging. Care to share which writer?
It was a commenter, as I recall.
Thank you for compiling this archive. I have noticed the tendency of activists to deny the biological reality of sex, and also to deny that anyone would make such a ridiculous claim. But I suspect the matter will sort itself out, with the activists getting on the same page and agreeing to either affirm or deny biological sex. Or am I giving them too much credit?
Circular logic, the proverbial dog chasing its tail. Thanks for compiling this archive.
Holy $%!t. This is soooooooo valuable. Thank you for taking the time.
"What you say is happening is not happening, and it's good that it's happening."
Gaslighting meets delusion, as in trans A saying “you don’t understand what trans B is saying” - both are delusional, and inducting you into their Vampiric mental-energy sapping hall of mirrors. Assume anything said is a lie, including “I am lying” and it’s much easier. There is no “truth value” in utterances from deluded people. There is only desire to indict you into the delusion system.
The real question is do you understand that both people are delusional - trans A man thinks they have a female brain perhaps, and another trans B man thinks they are a woman.
The only non-delusional trans I know understand they have radical discomfort with their genitalia, it will never go away, and that they are indeed men.
It’s sort like AA “I recognize I’m an alcoholic and there’s no cure, but I can manage it.” You have to recognize that you’re delusional. That’s hard.
Great description - the next level trap with gender dysphoria is essentialising the cause of the dysphoria, which then becomes the new 'true trans'.
My "notes on trans" covering 4 decades of listening to the stuff seems to identify 7 hierarchical levels of delusion (attempts to deny simple reality - women exist and are not men) from self-delusional men "having a period", men self-masking with makeup and wigs, to men requiring a doctor (surgery or hormones) then medical establishment (WPATH) then to combinations of establishments in a domain (WPATH and AMA and APA) then cross-domain (and IOC and Schools and Legislation) and arriving at broad reality-denying language changes (trans men redefining the word woman, pronouns, “person giving birth”) - it’s startling, but at each and every level it’s simply denying that women exist. So at any level you look at it, it’s no more complex than someone saying someone not a woman is a woman, and that saying women exist is offensive.
It's hard to see why so many women support it.
Many don't but have no choice . Or they hope to 'get it to work' ie "maybe he will help with the housework , babysit more , do the cooking etc." . Surprise surprise he doesn't and is more likely to spend money on clothes and makeup . Which reveals the deep woman-hatred behind this kind of thing .
Superb write-up - I instantly subscribed. Thank you for all the work you put into this. It will be so valuable.
As a former biology teacher, anyone that says that a trans woman, i.e. a man, is biologically a woman would get an F.
If you are a former biology teacher you haven't been afflicted with recent mad curriculum changes ! It may not be possible to tell the truth nowadays ?
An excellent piece. They have always denied that biological sex was immutable, however, the facts speak for themselves.
Lying through their teeth! next, they will say that 2+2 = 5. Anybody that denies this is trans phobic .
My God ! Don't say that - you may be tempting fate !