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Transgenderism and its War on Truth
American Thinker ^ | 28 May, 2023 | Trevor Thomas

Posted on 05/28/2023 4:50:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In all the conversation that is prevalent throughout the Earth today, there is almost nothing further from the truth than the absurd and evil notion that men can become women, and that women can become men, or similarly, the idea that sex (or “gender”) is not binary and rather “a spectrum.” These ideas are so absurd and so far from the truth (in line with 2 + 2 = 5) that many modern liberals refuse—or perhaps more accurately, have yet—to embrace them.

We shouldn’t be surprised that we are now having to debate what is a male and what is a female, or that sex is binary. Transgenderism, and all its fallacies, is simply what results when one abandons the notion of absolute truth. The idea that some things are settled for all time is not a tenet of modern liberalism.

Saying that “some things are settled for all time” is simply another way of saying that we live in a universe where “absolute truth” exists. I’ve never quite understood why it’s “absolute truth” and not simply “truth.” Regardless, it is folly to suggest that some things aren’t immutably true. If anything exists, there must be truth. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it,

The existence of truth is self-evident. For whoever denies the existence of truth grants that truth does not exist: and, if truth does not exist, then the proposition ‘Truth does not exist’ is true: and if there is anything true, there must be truth.

The truth about truth flies in the face of those who wish to rule their own world and write their own moral code. So you see, transgenderism—like the marriage debate—is just another battle in the war on truth. Granted, it is a battle against one of the oldest truths—even older than...

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To: MtnClimber

Here is my take. From my medical textbook: http://clinicalmedconsult.com/

Gender assigned (recognized) at birth: a person’s initial assignment as male or female at birth. It is based on the child’s genitalia and other visible physical sex characteristics. When the obstetrician delivers a newborn, sees a penis, and announces, “It’s a boy!” that is not an arbitrary assignment. When a baby is born, what is the first thing everybody knows about? Often whether they are a boy or a girl. Many academics have now decided boys and girls didn’t exist. They claim that sex is in fact a “social construct” or a matter of “performance.” People on social media platforms have started to refer to people’s “gender assigned at birth”.
Gender expression: the way a person communicates about gender to others through external means such as clothing, appearance or mannerisms. This communication may be conscious or subconscious and may or may not reflect gender identity or sexual orientation.

Gender identity (or affirmed gender): a person’s intrinsic sense of self as male, female or an alternate gender, reflecting a complex interplay of biological, genetic, environmental and cultural factors. It does not always correspond to biological or anatomic sex. Gender identity is biological. Gender identity is the person’s innate sense of self as male, female, both, or neither and should not be confused with sexual orientation, an individual’s enduring pattern of romantic and/or sexual attraction. Transgender individuals have gender identities that do not match their birth-recorded sex. Many people believe that gender can be only one of those two things (what’s called a binary choice: this or that; male or female). Navajo and Hawaiian cultures recognize individuals they consider as embodying both male and female spirits. Indonesia, Albania, and India all have cultures that recognize a spectrum of gender expression. Some think of gender as being the degree to which you feel and experience your identity, which may encompass different aspects of traditional masculinity and femininity to varying degrees.

Gender Redefined: Your gender identity is different from your biology and comes from how you are socialized and the roles you take on. It’s important to understand that your sex doesn’t determine your gender identity or determine who you will be attracted to. Gender is your biological sex, but gender identity is how you feel—and you can feel different from the sex you were assigned at birth. Your gender expression is how you show others a part of your identity. Gender identity can be expressed in the clothes we wear, how we style our hair, and the ways we behave.

• Sex is not a social construct. In biology, there are only two sexes. This is true throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. An organism’s sex is defined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) it has the function of producing. Males have the function of producing sperm, or small gametes; females, ova, or large ones. Intersex people, whose genitalia appear ambiguous (a rare developmental condition) or mixed (hermaphrodites), don’t undermine the sex binary. For the vast majority of people, their sex is obvious. Gender ideology seeks to portray sex as so incomprehensibly complex and multivariable that our traditional practice of classifying people as simply either male or female is grossly outdated and should be abandoned for a revolutionary concept of “gender identity.” (The WSJ. 2023;April 10 issue by Dr. Wright, an evolutionary biologist)


21 posted on 05/28/2023 8:42:36 AM PDT by consult
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To: blackdog

Yope, transgenderists = Flat Earthers is really fitting!
Unfortunately, there are many more transgenderists recently than Flat Earthers.


22 posted on 05/28/2023 1:07:00 PM PDT by AZJeep
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