I have to hand it to republicans on this one. Nothing else gets woke liberals studdering more. It’s a basic question and they have trouble answering it. Republicans milk that effect for all it’s worth, but sure, they rightfully feel “correct”.
Here’s the thing though:
1) Not every liberal agrees with the woke left on this narrative about gender. A lot of us agree that people are born as they are and biologically there is no changing it.
2) However, given the logic of point number 1, it doesn’t somehow excuse the dehumanization of the transgender population. They are still people and they deserve as much as respect as anyone else. Republicans often think it is “gross” or “weird” to them so they try to dehumanize them as much as possible. They can’t accept that what makes us human is often pretty complicated and they don’t need to have any natural empathy for it.
3) “Gender” has a varied definition that sets it apart from “sex”. While these terms can be used interchangeably, there is a variation of the word of the word “gender” that is defined purely psychologically. “Gender” can be defined as a social construct. Someone might naturally reject any psychological norms that often defines their sex. They may feel, for whatever reason, they are not the sex they are born with. One might argue with this position all day long, but the reality is that is how they feel regardless of whether or not you and I think it is based in biology. When it comes to mental disorders, it is no longer considered a mental disorder in the DSM. When it was, it was called “gender identity disorder”. Even when this was a considered a disorder, it was defined by the mental distress it caused in the person with it. It wasn’t defined by how others saw it. A mental disorder can only be defined as something that harms the person with it or causes harm to the people around them. If you think this causes psychological harm to people around them, you are willfully ignorant.
Gender was redefined recently and made distinct from sex. If you want to play semantics and define gender as something separate from sex, go right ahead. Have fun.
A person born a male is a male and a person born a female is a female, and those born intersex from birth, having both male and female genitalia or/and genetics, aren't one separate from the other, hence it's reasonable for them to choose which sex they want to identify as, assuming they even want to do that. Perhaps they'll opt to remain gender-neutral or identify as transgender. The problem is when people aren't intersex, and they want to identify as the opposite gender which they don't belong to hence the word "opposite". Opposite sex. A man who decides at 22 to be a woman is suffering from gender dysphoria, a mental illness. Just call it what it is and don't hold all of society hostage to your "woke", unscientific nonsense.
Men who dress up like women, wear makeup, maybe even take hormones and get breast transplants, including sexual reassignment surgery, might very well look, sound, act.etc, like a woman, but such people should still be identified as "trans-woman". A woman with the qualifying prefix of "trans", that's the category of woman she is. A person who is in the process of transitioning, because unfortunately we don't have the technology at the moment to fully transition them to the opposite gender. Perhaps in the future we will have that ability and that person can be a fullfledged member of that gender, genetically, hormonally, biologically, but right now what we have are trans-women and trans-men.
To identify these people as actual women or men without the qualifying "trans" prefix, is a mistake and is a dangerous falsehood.
Furthermore, confusing the hell out of children about their sex and gender because mommy or/and daddy want to be "cool" card carrying liberals who can brag about having transgender children, is child abuse. It's a heinous crime, especially when those children are being subjected to puberty blockers and being essentially groomed to be of a certain sexual orientation. This is happening right now to thousands of children throughout the US who have the misfortune of having "woke", "ultra-progressive" liberal parents. These children have been consigned to a life of dangerous hormone treatments and surgeries, not to speak of all of the emotional, psychological challenges that come with being a sexually dysphoric person. Perhaps if they've had parents with a different worldview, they would've been raised like practically all other kids and would've developed a healthy attraction to the opposite sex, like most people have. But unfortunately their "woke" liberal parents turned them into guinea pigs in their own personal social experiment and tools for their "progressive" egos. The conservatives as much as I disagree with them on many issues, I agree with them on the issue of gender and defining who and what a woman is.
A woman is an adult human female. That entails having the genes, chromosomes, and biology of a human female.
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