24 September

Judith Butler's interview about trans issues has been getting a lot of attention. I criticise a lot of transgender thinking, and wanted to say why a bit more over time. Transgender is defined as a person who feels that their gender identity is different to their sex assigned at birth. This is where it becomes spaghetti for me. A big part of transgender thinking is about denying that your sex is your gender, but the root definition *of* transgender is somebody not 'feeling' their birth sex. So the whole idea links sex and gender. And do any of us feel our sex anyway? I don't know what being male feels like. Is it even a thing to feel? https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times