an attempt to
understand.
Understanding is overrated. That's what we have politics for.
In any event, I think this is a good time to re-assert my hypothesis about what which is called transgenderism.
The concept of transgenderism is built upon the notion that men and women have different
human identities. It requires a belief that there are fundamental differences between men and women that to
beyond superficial accident of their birth. There is, of course, no doubt that there are superficial differences between women, having to do with the dimorphic construction of their bodies. And there can be no doubt that there are an assortment of differences between the two classes, and commonalities within each respective class, that would seem to go beyond the mere accident of birth. But none of that amounts to anything that rightly indicates or implies any non-superficial difference between men and women.
Ultimately, the search for non-superficial differences between men and women continues to be a complete failure. Every attempt to identify such differences
always turns out to be pure sexism, and often times is quite homophobic. And the notions which people express as their reasons for "feeling like the wrong gender" are similarly so. These all range from notions masculine strength vs feminine gentleness, sexist beliefs in gender specific interests, sexist conceptions of different academic capacities, etc.
What it all comes down to is that society as a whole is diseased with sexism. Society insists that a man who wants to be a Kindergarten teacher must be a fag because being nice and gentle toward young children isn't manly, it's feminine. Or worse, he's a pedophile and that's why he wants to work with children. Women who want to be police are butch and manly. Men who are sensitive are lesser humans than men who are rough and tough. Women who are rough and tough are lesser humans than women who are delicate and ornate. All this bullshit sexism that has diseased society is what generates the feeling within people that
they are faulty because of
who they are not matching
what they think society is saying they should be.
These feelings are, thus, not due to some kind of mistake of nature to create the person with the "wrong" anatomy. They are due to mistakes by society, and mistakes by the individual, to that define the quality of human existence against concepts of preconceived notions that assign identifying qualities based on gender.
For this reason, I maintain that the growth needed in society is
not double down on sexism by reaffirming the false beliefs that men and women have qualities that they allegedly are supposed to maintain. Instead, we need to break away from these ideas. We need to learn to accept people's character
without regard to whether that character is housed in a male or female body. If we as a society learn to do that, transgenderism will disappear and become a page in humanity's history of sexism. By indulging the hypothesis of an internal mental gender identification separate from biological identification of the same, we are embracing and propagating sexism.
