Status Updates From On the Meaning of Sex: Thou...

“This is not about concern for trans people. This is not openness and tolerance. It is the exact opposite. This is the return of an extremely rigid understanding of gender that pathologises and medicalises children who do not behave according to narrow gender roles. The fact that this can be hailed as progressive, and supported by humanists and feminists alike, is completely incomprehensible.” 👏🏼

“The moral that runs through these books is that children who are not old enough to have sex, vote, drink alcohol or get a tattoo, ought to undergo significant medical interventions which risk making them infertile for life—and parents must not even ask them to wait. Those who question the ethics of interventions on minors are lectured.”

“There is an undertone saying homosexuality is too inappropriate for the traditional family and a bit too boring for the modern one. And while homosexuality does not require any interventions, gender reassignment is a project expected to involve the entire family. Above all, nothing should be questioned.”

“When it comes to the risks and proven side effects of treatment, the inquiry displays a shocking indifference to the risks for trans people. It is as though their bodies, their selves and their futures are something that do not need to be taken seriously. If they become infertile, if the hormones are proven harmful, if their health deteriorates following treatment: none of this seems a major concern.”

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“Surgery on children with intersex variations is described as a human rights violation… However, when the inquiry refers to similar interventions on children it has named transgender, these are called a human right.”

🥴 FGM, for example, would cause outrage in most cases, but if you filter it through this ideology I suppose it would be acceptable or even encouraged.

“The focus has shifted from an alleged concern about the well being of transgender people to viewing them as some kind of avant garde showing the way towards a new world order. This avant garde has now taken on a political identity. This is, however, an avant garde that is also given the role of guinea pig. When it comes to treatment, the caution of ten years prior is gone.”

“Nowhere is there even the slightest mention that a person is fine as s/he is and ought to be accepted even when s/he doesn’t fit in with society’s ideas of how a girl or boy should look and behave.”

“An inquiry tasked with making life easier for a vulnerable minority group ends up stating that society should radically change the definition of sex. The changes recommended have massive implications for equality between men and women—being able to refer to sex is a prerequisite for recognising discrimination.”

“The focus has shifted from the priority stated in the 2007 inquiry of improving mental health outcomes for transsexuals, into changing social norms. A key part of these changes involves doing away with biological sex as a category.”

“If the only difference between men and women is their status in the sexual hierarchy, and if this hierarchy is entirely ‘constructed’, why is it that those with a certain role in reproduction, namely giving birth, always end up at the bottom of the hierarchy? If it has—as MacKinnon argues—nothing to do with biology, it is an utterly incredible coincidence!”

Ain’t that the truth.

“The essence of gender is sexual oppression and anyone who assumes the position of the oppressed can be a woman. Materiality is therefore nothing, language everything, thus biological sex means nothing and gender everything.”

“According to this view, a man is seen as women’s if he can ‘pass’ as one, that is, the extent to which he physically resembles a woman… This definition is completely dependent on a prototype of ‘woman’, and this prototype cannot be anything other than biological… Ramnehill’s thesis relies entirely on the existence of a point of reference. This point of reference is the female body.”

“The author divides himself into two selves. One self has a Swedish man’s name, the other a Spanish woman’s, and these two selves have clear roles—the man is active, the woman passive, the man acts, the woman waits, the man scores, the woman just plays to look good.” 🙄

“If we remove the material base that previously provided the grounding for the definition of sex, we are left with little other than stereotypes and cultural norms.”

“For de Beauvoir, there was nothing difficult about defining woman: a woman is a person born with a female body. Regardless of how a woman dresses, lives or thinks, she is a woman. Saying that one is not born a woman is shorthand for: the subordination which society sees as being the lot of women is determined by society, not biology.”

“Any woman who tries to disagree, finds herself trapped in a labyrinth. If she wants to fight for her rights, she is discriminating against other women, women who are, moreover, even more oppressed than she is. She cannot therefore stand up for her own sex without being accused of fighting against members of this very sex.”

“This is a revolution that requires us all to open our eyes and undertake a “mind set reset,” understanding that we don’t need different rights and laws for different people because “sex isn’t what we are but what we do.” 🚩🚩🚩

“We are dealing with a new theory on sex that has become hegemonic and commonplace in a short period of time. In just ten years, countries, sporting organisations, the media and international organisations in the west have accepted and adopted this view. At the same time, scarcely any in depth discussion about it has taken place.” !!