21 June

The astonishing thing about the transgender movement is how fast it became mainstream. I think it’s driven largely by social media, which allowed the bypassing of the usual testing process for the ideas through various institutions and public discussions, over an extended time. And the proof of the pudding is in the almost fanatical vitriol any discussion of the ideas attracts, a sure sign of social media heritage. I’m as open-minded as anybody. I’ve looked at the theory behind trans and it’s intrinsically self-contradictory. I suspect people rally behind it because it’s sold as a discrimination issue, so it’s become a social movement almost completely divorced from actual consideration of the content of what people are backing. I’m yet to see one explanation for how a belief system can say sex ≠ gender, while also saying trans = sex at birth not matching assigned gender. Those are mutually contradictory statements. The majority of trans people are also born as men, wishing to identify as women. It’s largely men wishing to claim womanhood for themselves, which attracts hardly any comment. To me it’s disgraceful, that women fought for self-determination for so many generations, only to arrive at a point where men ‘own’ womanhood itself, simply by declaring it. In discussions with people it also seems that many confuse transgender with gender dysphasia. Not the same thing.