"all my life I have used "psychological/biological gender" for the distinction you named and "sex" for the horizontal hokey-pokey and only rarely used "sex" for biological gender."
To be fair, I think this is one of the many problems with conversations about this stuff. You're far from alone in having grown up treating sex and gender as s…
"all my life I have used "psychological/biological gender" for the distinction you named and "sex" for the horizontal hokey-pokey and only rarely used "sex" for biological gender."
To be fair, I think this is one of the many problems with conversations about this stuff. You're far from alone in having grown up treating sex and gender as synonyms. And the fact that they're not rarely mattered because we didn't spend so much time talking to people who nitpicked the concepts to validate their neuroses.
I push for precision not out of pedantry, but beacuse this innacuracy allows disingenuous people to more easily twist your words or claim "you just don't get it."
It's part of using language as weapon. To distinguish biological and psychological notions of gender is to insist that there is a need to do so. Just as with using "cis" when the topic is nowhere near "gender identity," the intention is to promote the false notion that humanity is bifurcated into the gender-congruent and incongruent. In real life of course gender dysphoria, itself a pretense that the old term, ending with "disorder," was inaccurate, is very rare, one out of tens of thousands of births, but as with immediate transitioning. the goal is to swell the ranks.
You don't even need to be dysphoric; just make the claim. Unhappy at home or school? Maybe you're "trans." Doesn't solve a thing but now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr63Bexo8z8.
There's a lot of this going on, not just in "trans," but the activists are making the most strident demands, requiring us to pay special attention to them and memorize their myriad gender classifications and their damned pronouns.
GW Bush would use the word "believe" to lie on the podium; he could claim to believe the most implausible ideas but the word removed him from dishonesty.
But among the "trans" activists this is a power play. By changing the terms they can claim to speak for millions of people when in reality there are probably fewer than 10,000 gender dysphoric people in America; not enough to change the language over, and they aren't the ones demanding that.
Because unlike the activists, they just want to be left alone.
When did the idea that biological sex and gender are two different things. I'm old enough to have spent most of my life where that was not a concept.
There have always been effeminate men and masculine women, having nothing to do with sexuality. They were still men and women. It might be implicit that their thought processes aligned with those masculine/feminine traits but that changing gender was not a thing.
One man in 30,000, one woman in 100,000 is gender dysphoric. That would be about 5000 people nationwide. OK, giving some wiggle because the scientific criteria are very strict, let's allow the number to be ten times that. Around 50,000.
Right now the activists are claiming that something like 500-1000 the scientific number are "trans."
NUH-uh.
And they bare their teeth and snarl in rage at any suggestion that this is a medical condition. They assert that "trans" is part of normal human variation, like homosexuality and lefthandedness. Despite the fact that many dysphoric people feel excruciatingly uncomfortable in their own skins and that a lot of men (trigger alert) yearn to be castrated, the thought of which for other men, even the toughest men, evokes horror.
This is as much a disorder as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, those who want healthy limbs amputated. The latter is fortunately less common, but some of these people will lay a leg across the tracks before an oncoming train.
We should be compassionate and understanding as we can for those who are suffering from GID, but for godssake, we should not be encouraging people who don't have it ... to believe they do.
I'm left to wonder what the honest number would be without an internet. I often use the phrase "in real life" because I am more and more inclined to think it spreads ideas that would never spread without it. The things that metastasize it like a cancer are the desire to be seen as "a good person" through virtue signaling and wanting to be in the right clique like a bunch of high schoolers.
"all my life I have used "psychological/biological gender" for the distinction you named and "sex" for the horizontal hokey-pokey and only rarely used "sex" for biological gender."
To be fair, I think this is one of the many problems with conversations about this stuff. You're far from alone in having grown up treating sex and gender as synonyms. And the fact that they're not rarely mattered because we didn't spend so much time talking to people who nitpicked the concepts to validate their neuroses.
I push for precision not out of pedantry, but beacuse this innacuracy allows disingenuous people to more easily twist your words or claim "you just don't get it."
It's part of using language as weapon. To distinguish biological and psychological notions of gender is to insist that there is a need to do so. Just as with using "cis" when the topic is nowhere near "gender identity," the intention is to promote the false notion that humanity is bifurcated into the gender-congruent and incongruent. In real life of course gender dysphoria, itself a pretense that the old term, ending with "disorder," was inaccurate, is very rare, one out of tens of thousands of births, but as with immediate transitioning. the goal is to swell the ranks.
You don't even need to be dysphoric; just make the claim. Unhappy at home or school? Maybe you're "trans." Doesn't solve a thing but now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr63Bexo8z8.
There's a lot of this going on, not just in "trans," but the activists are making the most strident demands, requiring us to pay special attention to them and memorize their myriad gender classifications and their damned pronouns.
GW Bush would use the word "believe" to lie on the podium; he could claim to believe the most implausible ideas but the word removed him from dishonesty.
The study of manipulation of language to regulate thought predates Orwell and Newspeak; the study of this relationship is called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis
But among the "trans" activists this is a power play. By changing the terms they can claim to speak for millions of people when in reality there are probably fewer than 10,000 gender dysphoric people in America; not enough to change the language over, and they aren't the ones demanding that.
Because unlike the activists, they just want to be left alone.
When did the idea that biological sex and gender are two different things. I'm old enough to have spent most of my life where that was not a concept.
There have always been effeminate men and masculine women, having nothing to do with sexuality. They were still men and women. It might be implicit that their thought processes aligned with those masculine/feminine traits but that changing gender was not a thing.
One man in 30,000, one woman in 100,000 is gender dysphoric. That would be about 5000 people nationwide. OK, giving some wiggle because the scientific criteria are very strict, let's allow the number to be ten times that. Around 50,000.
Right now the activists are claiming that something like 500-1000 the scientific number are "trans."
NUH-uh.
And they bare their teeth and snarl in rage at any suggestion that this is a medical condition. They assert that "trans" is part of normal human variation, like homosexuality and lefthandedness. Despite the fact that many dysphoric people feel excruciatingly uncomfortable in their own skins and that a lot of men (trigger alert) yearn to be castrated, the thought of which for other men, even the toughest men, evokes horror.
This is as much a disorder as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, those who want healthy limbs amputated. The latter is fortunately less common, but some of these people will lay a leg across the tracks before an oncoming train.
We should be compassionate and understanding as we can for those who are suffering from GID, but for godssake, we should not be encouraging people who don't have it ... to believe they do.
I'm left to wonder what the honest number would be without an internet. I often use the phrase "in real life" because I am more and more inclined to think it spreads ideas that would never spread without it. The things that metastasize it like a cancer are the desire to be seen as "a good person" through virtue signaling and wanting to be in the right clique like a bunch of high schoolers.