Another Post on Transgenderism

A Look at Transgenderism

As Roe v Wade and abortion are in the news this week, I considered writing about that topic. However, I looked back at an earlier post I wrote some time ago about abortion and decided I’d pretty much said all I wanted to say on the topic there.

I’ve gone over the abortion issue time and time again in my head. And I always end up in the same place. I would be pro-choice if we abolished all law and embraced complete anarchy. And I suspect that would be a disaster of epic proportions.

On the other hand, if we accept that there are going to be some laws governing our society, then my position is basically the pro-life one with exceptions for rape and danger to the mother, plus a concerted effort to develop an artificial womb so that even those instances of abortion can have other alternatives. I cover all of this in this post on abortion here.

So, since I’m not going to talk about abortion, I figure I will revisit the topic of Transgenderism.

Transgenderism

Courtesy of my antichrist issues, I recently enjoyed a fine stay in the mental health ward of our local hospital. It was an … enlightening experience. Ten days of my life flushed down the toilet. Again.

Anyway, while I was there, I met a younger person who was a patient and transgender. He … nope, sorry, I can’t do it. She was … I’m not even sure. Transgender labels always confuse me. Did a transwoman start as a woman or end as a woman? I never know.

Transgenderism, Biology, and Psychology

Let me be a little clearer and make a distinction (I even tried to make this distinction to the aforementioned patient, but I was a little clumsy about it). Let’s distinguish between biological gender and psychological gender.

We can say biological gender is determined by x and y chromosomes and the respective genitalia. This is the normal … well, forgive me … the “pre-woke enlightened” definition of gender. You can determine this pretty much from visual inspection.

But the discussion doesn’t end there.

Transgenderism, Relativism, and the Paranormal

Thanks to the advent of “relativism” in all its hideous forms, there is a strong strain of … um, downright absurd silliness pushing common-sense into a rapidly diminishing corner. Basically, we are all supposed to believe that our minds control everything. What we think, what we believe is capable of morphing reality to our whims.

At one level, this may be true to a certain degree … if you buy into the possibility of psychic phenomena and things like psychokinesis, etc… Even though I personally have some limited experience with psi-phenomena, using such to support a full-blown relativism is a stretch, I think, at best.

Is it logically possible that I could change my biological gender by simply thinking it (or forcefully thinking it)? Yes, that is logically possible. It might not be (and as far as my experience tells me, is not) causally possible, but causality and logic don’t necessarily agree all the time. Anyway, this universe may contain wonders we have yet to discover (even if it is sentient and evil 😊).

Defining Transgenderism

Anyway, the only way I can make sense of transgenderism is that “normal” cis-gendered individuals like myself have a biological gender that matches their psychological gender. Whereas a transgender individual has a biological gender and a psychological gender that do not match.

The transgender movement actually recognizes this, but I think they go out of their way to be clumsy in their distinction. They call “biological gender” sex assigned at birth and psychological gender simply gender. I don’t know why they insist on obfuscating their position, but I want to point out a few problems their position has.

The Definition of Gender/Sex

First, saying sex is assigned at birth implies that sex is some sort of social construct where it is determined by some kind of artificial group consensus that has no objective ground. I don’t agree with that. At all.

Sex isn’t assigned at birth, it is recognized at birth (or even sooner), and is actually determined, if I remember my high school biology correctly, at conception when an X and a Y cell or two X cells join together to form the human zygote.

I mean if you want to go down the route where everything everywhere is just a construct of society and you can’t enunciate words that have actual meaning … I’ll do you one better and deny the existence of the external world. I will wallow in solipsism and pretend that that will allow me to live a sane life.

In that situation I will have no compunction against ignoring you and your side and, if I’m a particularly rebellious mood, the lawfully elected government entirely. Generally speaking, we probably shouldn’t encourage people to embrace that attitude.

Two Types of Gender or More?

Anyway, like I said, I can make sense of transgenderism if you stipulate an additional gender type like psychological gender in addition to the “normal” biological gender. It complicates the concept of gender, but at least it is coherent.

Two different concepts of gender. When both concepts match, you fall into one of the two “traditional” genders. When they don’t match, you don’t.

The problem here is that mathematically speaking if there are only two types of genders each with two possibilities, there are only four possible outcomes. And anyone familiar with the LGBTQ+ position knows that they recognize far more possibilities for gender-identity than four. I’ve lost count. 30+ if not significantly more.

The Complete Overhaul of the Concept of Gender

You can accommodate this if you divorce the concept of psychological gender from biological gender to the extent that they are concepts that are totally alien to each other. One, biological gender has only two options (three if you allow for hermaphrodites), whereas the other, psychological gender is a continuum and is therefore fluid and far more versatile.

When you do this, though, why should the two concepts be related at all? Why are you using a term like gender – which has a history of a particular discrete meaning stretching back thousands of years into the past – to delineate a fluid concept that has only just recently become popular?

Really, the problem with the transgender movement is that they are using the wrong word: gender. If you must, invent your own new word to delineate the concept you have created. That’s a small ask.

Like I said, gender has a meaning with a history stretching back thousands of years. I, personally, am not opposed to there being some new term like “psychological gender” to give us a way to talk about transgender individuals without creating confusion.

However, I don’t like the notion that the LGBTQ+ community thinks it can use gender to delineate a meaning it never had before, thus creating a wellspring of confusion that serves all of us ill.

LGBTQ+, Gender Labels, Sexual Preference, and Lycanthrope

Really. The LGBTQ+ labels abound with confusion. For example, if we use the aforementioned psychological gender for transgender individuals, then lesbians, gays, and bisexuals all fall out of the category because none of those terms have anything to do with gender but instead revolve around sexual preference.

Sexual preference and gender are not the same concept at all. Trying to mash them together doesn’t help the situation. Then there is the problem of lycanthrope which I discussed in this post on transgenderism and lycanthrope.

At one point, all these things, including both homosexuality and transgenderism were considered mental illnesses. Lycanthrope, I believe, is still considered a mental illness. But for how long? The way things are going, I’m not entirely certain there will be such a thing as “mental illness” in the future.

Transgenderism and the AntiChrist

Of course, I’m convinced I’m the antichrist. Isn’t my claim as equally valid as a transgender’s or a lycanthrope’s? Does that mean I really am the antichrist? What do you make of that?

Anyway, I have absolutely no training in psychology or psychiatry. Bear that in mind. However, I have written the above in a good faith effort to understand transgenderism and its relationship to reality and mental health. I am not sure if I succeeded.

How Should We Deal with a Transgender Person?

With respect to the transgender person who was a biological woman that I met in the hospital … she seemed like a nice, decent person, but I found it somewhat disconcerting and confusing to hear her talk about her “girlfriend” who was a biological man and mention things like her deadname and what-have-you.

I have no ill-will towards that person, in fact, I can honestly say I did like her; however, I want to reiterate a point that I tried to make to her, but in retrospect, I was not emphatic enough about. She may think she is a man, but her body is biologically a woman.

I am not a doctor, but despite liberal loonies’ cries to the contrary, there are definite physical differences between biological men and biological women. Medical treatment of these two biological genders isn’t necessarily identical or compatible in all situations.

A biological woman treated as a biological man by a medical professional may suffer ill effects from that treatment. And vice versa for a biological man treated like a biological woman.

Conclusion

So, all you Lefties, be aware that your frenzied enthusiasm to obliterate and reverse gender differences could potentially lead to real harmful problems in a medical situation. Let’s not go there, shall we?