I apologize for sending this long post, but what you wrote got me started thinking through the topic, and it was hard to stop. Probably not worth reading.
The sex/gender thing has creeped even into the animal rescue world, where we have to “sex” the new arrivals, then track and house them accordingly. I’ve noticed that a female volunteer sets up speadsheets of animal data with the heading “gender” instead of “sex”. At first I found this amusing, as an example of how language and ideas cross-contaminate. But animals expose the falsity of the modern “gender” construct.
Like humans, cats and dogs are physically one sex or the other. They can be spayed or neutered, but their DNA doesn’t change. They have no sense of self, and certainly no “gender” in the way the leftist nutters define it. Male and female critters have distinctly different behavior patterns that derive from individual and species survival strategies. No one teaches them this, or imposes it on them via culture, colonialism, or patriarchy. Humans often
project fantasies onto animals, but that does not change what the animals are themselves.
Humans do have a sense of self, and that is precisely where “gender” is found. Human self-perception is maleable, subjective, inaccurate, both conscious and subconscious, and heavily influenced by language, culture, emotion, hormones, peer pressure/group dynamics, and the projections of others. The Leftists’ conceit is to confuse the subjective nature of “gender” with physical reality, with tragic results.
The current wave of gender disphoria is a matter of culturally created psychosis, usually started by mothers with an agenda, then reinforced by social media. How anyone can treat this as anything but a psychiatric problem is beyond me.
That was a good post.
Thanks.