I remember someone on Reddit once tried using doctors as proof of trans legitimacy. They actually used that as proof. I just reminded them what happens to doctors who don’t drink the Kool aid.
I had the same happen years ago when I argued gender was a medical term and turning it into a sociological one was bastardizing the scientific process and making an unproven ideology superior to hard science. The rebuttal was “why aren’t biologists speaking out then”, of course predditors couldn’t figure out the sociologists took over the admin and who was allowed to be “biologists”…
Gender has only become a medical term because we, as a society, became squeamish about the word "sex." There are two sexes in the human race, male and female. Gender has its roots in linguistics. It referred to the grammatical gender of nouns (masculine, feminine, or neuter.)
Gender then became a euphemism for biological sex. Then it became a term for the expectations and social role that related to a particular sex. Then, it became an abstract "identity" that was distinctive from one's actual sex or even the role traditionally associated with the new identity. Now, it's become a catch-all for everything related to the sexes. It can refer to biological sex exclusively, mental identity, or anything tangentially related to them.
Years? I'm thinking months if this is just being published now. They're going to get pushback from troons and American/EU "experts" in short order.
I remember someone on Reddit once tried using doctors as proof of trans legitimacy. They actually used that as proof. I just reminded them what happens to doctors who don’t drink the Kool aid.
I had the same happen years ago when I argued gender was a medical term and turning it into a sociological one was bastardizing the scientific process and making an unproven ideology superior to hard science. The rebuttal was “why aren’t biologists speaking out then”, of course predditors couldn’t figure out the sociologists took over the admin and who was allowed to be “biologists”…
Gender has only become a medical term because we, as a society, became squeamish about the word "sex." There are two sexes in the human race, male and female. Gender has its roots in linguistics. It referred to the grammatical gender of nouns (masculine, feminine, or neuter.)
Gender then became a euphemism for biological sex. Then it became a term for the expectations and social role that related to a particular sex. Then, it became an abstract "identity" that was distinctive from one's actual sex or even the role traditionally associated with the new identity. Now, it's become a catch-all for everything related to the sexes. It can refer to biological sex exclusively, mental identity, or anything tangentially related to them.