Excellent as usual, Steve. Some very good talking points. You demonstrated incredible patience and restraint in your replies to Alex.
"Could it have anything to do with the attempt, not replicated in any other culture, to erase the meaning of woman completely? Not just the “identity” but the material reality? "
Exactly this. Trans acti…
Excellent as usual, Steve. Some very good talking points. You demonstrated incredible patience and restraint in your replies to Alex.
"Could it have anything to do with the attempt, not replicated in any other culture, to erase the meaning of woman completely? Not just the “identity” but the material reality? "
Exactly this. Trans activists appear to want to ignore or erase the very real biological and social differences between women and trans women.
I do still find it very odd that I never hear the question "what is a man?" in the context of discussions about gender identity.
Great examples of issues with disregarding biology to appease demands from Trans activists to be treated special. There are reasons that the term 'sex' is used on legal and medical forms (hint: it is not about gender expression, but biology).
Yet another example of how much this absurdity has taken over, I ran across this today on a County Health site regarding Monkey Pox vaccines: "Monkeypox vaccine is currently available to: Any sexually active man, or transgender or nonbinary person, who has sex with men"
Maybe it is just me, but I could not figure out why being nonbinary or transgender would be a special consideration. Hmm...I have sex with men, but I am not nonbinary (though my gender expression is definitely not very feminine), so does that mean I can't get the vaccine? What if I feel more masculine today... or wait, do I need to feel more feminine.... I am so confused. ;-)
“Maybe it is just me, but I could not figure out why being nonbinary or transgender would be a special consideration”
Me neither. Worse, it makes a medical question that might affect somebody’s healthcare decisions needlessly unclear.
Why not just say “anybody who has sex with men”? If I have to run through a whole algorithm in my head to figure out whether I need the vaccine, maybe I would just give up when I needed it. Healthcare related questions should be as clear and straightforward as possible.
There’s a good reason we aren’t asking “what is a man?” though. Actually there are two.
1. Redefining “msn” makes no significant difference to men’s lives. We already have to deal with other men in our spaces.
2. Trans men aren’t demanding that we change our understanding of our sex class because they are almost unfailingly less aggressive, entitled and predatory than trans women. Whatever could explain that…🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
At a urologist's office the questionnaire did not have the expected "M or F", it had "Your preferred gender identity." Puzzling. But then the physician and physician's assistants have no difficulty deciding if you need to bend over for the finger or lie down and put your feet in the stirrups during the exam. My curiosity did not get the best of me, and I didn't ask about the question.
Excellent as usual, Steve. Some very good talking points. You demonstrated incredible patience and restraint in your replies to Alex.
"Could it have anything to do with the attempt, not replicated in any other culture, to erase the meaning of woman completely? Not just the “identity” but the material reality? "
Exactly this. Trans activists appear to want to ignore or erase the very real biological and social differences between women and trans women.
I do still find it very odd that I never hear the question "what is a man?" in the context of discussions about gender identity.
Great examples of issues with disregarding biology to appease demands from Trans activists to be treated special. There are reasons that the term 'sex' is used on legal and medical forms (hint: it is not about gender expression, but biology).
Yet another example of how much this absurdity has taken over, I ran across this today on a County Health site regarding Monkey Pox vaccines: "Monkeypox vaccine is currently available to: Any sexually active man, or transgender or nonbinary person, who has sex with men"
Maybe it is just me, but I could not figure out why being nonbinary or transgender would be a special consideration. Hmm...I have sex with men, but I am not nonbinary (though my gender expression is definitely not very feminine), so does that mean I can't get the vaccine? What if I feel more masculine today... or wait, do I need to feel more feminine.... I am so confused. ;-)
“Maybe it is just me, but I could not figure out why being nonbinary or transgender would be a special consideration”
Me neither. Worse, it makes a medical question that might affect somebody’s healthcare decisions needlessly unclear.
Why not just say “anybody who has sex with men”? If I have to run through a whole algorithm in my head to figure out whether I need the vaccine, maybe I would just give up when I needed it. Healthcare related questions should be as clear and straightforward as possible.
There’s a good reason we aren’t asking “what is a man?” though. Actually there are two.
1. Redefining “msn” makes no significant difference to men’s lives. We already have to deal with other men in our spaces.
2. Trans men aren’t demanding that we change our understanding of our sex class because they are almost unfailingly less aggressive, entitled and predatory than trans women. Whatever could explain that…🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
At a urologist's office the questionnaire did not have the expected "M or F", it had "Your preferred gender identity." Puzzling. But then the physician and physician's assistants have no difficulty deciding if you need to bend over for the finger or lie down and put your feet in the stirrups during the exam. My curiosity did not get the best of me, and I didn't ask about the question.