21 August

Transgender and its politics is really just one more subset of what we call identity politics. And identity politics in turn is the kidult society I talk about, where instead of focusing collectively on collective problems, we spend all day every day curating our personal identities, which are also our statuses in social groups. For social animals like humans, your social staus *is* your identity. Thus the laughable nonsense that passes for common sense now, like this, where stillbirth has to include men identifying as women. Men who will of course never have any sort of pregnancy at all, let alone a stillbirth. The broad support for transgender is just more team sports, most have no idea what transgender ideas even are, confusing them with trans-sexualism and gender dysphoria. But they ‘stand with’ the right of everybody to define their identity however they like, because identity is our kidult culture. The endless battle for status, in social groups. The eternal high school, where you battle to be recognised as somebody, by attaching yourself to one of the groups in the playground. Not an analogy.