I'm seeing a lot of people expressing concern about how genderism is
rushing young women into trans medicalisation. How this is failing young women,
who are not really trans. How therapists, in their concern to help people who
are really trans, are failing those who, mistakenly, only think they are trans.
How the doctors and the therapists should take more care to be sure who is
really trans and who is not.
Their concern is that we, as a society, are failing to distinguish
between people who are really trans and people who only think they are trans,
or may be misled into thinking they are trans.
Before we can hope to make this distinction, we need to know what
"being trans" really means. So, from the experts:
"An umbrella term to describe people whose gender is not the same
as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at
birth."
Perhaps I'm thick so I'll look up what the experts mean by gender:
Often expressed in terms of masculinity and femininity, gender is
largely culturally determined and is assumed from the sex assigned at birth.
That can't be right, they said that gender is something that belongs to
an individual, the something that "is not the same as, or does not sit
comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth", but they say that
is "largely culturally determined".
Just below that, I find:
Used to describe when a person experiences discomfort or distress
because there is a mismatch between their sex assigned at birth and their
gender identity.
This is also the clinical diagnosis for someone who doesn’t feel
comfortable with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Well perhaps as gender transition is supposed to help alleviate Gender
Dysphoria, we should look at "Gender Identity"
A person’s innate sense of their own gender, whether male, female or
something else (see non-binary below), which may or may not correspond to the
sex assigned at birth.
So if we assume that they were talking about Gender Identity in their
definition of trans, we could refactor it to something like:
"Trans: An umbrella term to describe people whose innate sense of
their own gender is not ..... the sex they were assigned at birth".
So being trans depends on an "innate sense of gender" (ISOG)?
How do we know what our own ISOG is? Its not our sex, it can't be all that
cultural stuff, because surely, cultural stuff is not innate. Its not our body,
its not how we behave, stonewall tells us that:
How a person chooses to outwardly express their gender, within the
context of societal expectations of gender. A person who does not conform to
societal expectations of gender may not, however, identify as trans.
So the only way of knowing what someone’s “innate sense of their own
gender” is , is to ask them, and all they can base their reply on is what they
believe. There are no tests, no numbers, no bacillus on a slide, no chromatograph.
All that’s left is a belief about our own sense of gender - "I think I
believe I feel like a woman/man".
Can we really be mistaken about what we believe? Can we think we believe
something, only to find out later that we only thought we believe something? I’m
not a philosopher, the nearest thing I can think of is religious faith
So who is really trans and who is really trans, Who really believes they
are trans and who only thought they believed they were trans?
Or is it all just bollocks?
