3

Gender, Sex, and Transition

“What right do you have to violate and change who they already are without their consent?”

“As for gender dysphoria, since when are kids the experts on who they are? I’ve always been extremely introspective, yet even with all that self-examination I didn’t know who I was until much later in my adulthood, what makes you think these kids know anything?”

“If you’re an adult, go ahead, do whatever you like with your body. It sounds extreme to me, but hey, it’s your body, it’s your life, you’re the one who’ll have to live with the consequences. But leave the kids alone, let them grow up first before making such a drastic choice.”

“You’re not doing them any favors by pandering to their whims. If they complain of walking, would you let them cut off their legs? Yet you’re OK with permanently changing their sexual identity just because they feel uncomfortable being a boy or a girl?”

“Maybe they just had a bad day, maybe they’re having psychological issues because of trauma, because of other problems in their lives, maybe they’re just curious what it’s like to be the other sex, maybe they just think it’s greener on the other side as we often do.”

“If you think your identity is something you can change on a whim, like putting on some new clothes, you’re a moron. It takes effort, commitment, a lot of pain, and readjustment, life will never be the same, for better or worse.”

“You can identify as whatever you want, but that doesn’t change what you are. You can identify as a billionaire, but if you don’t have billions, you’re not one. And if you identify as a woman, well, what does it even mean if you look nothing like a woman?”

“If gender were whatever you identified with, then I wouldn’t know what you were unless you first told me, and even then I wouldn’t know what to do with that information because your identification may be just a whim, not at all reflective of reality.”

“And if there’s nothing to be reflective of, if gender is completely a subjective thing, a mere whim and nothing beyond, it would be a useless category devoid of meaning because our identity and our attractions are not some arbitrary thing that changes moment to moment.”

“If, for example, you identified as a woman but you don’t look anything like a woman, don’t have female sex organs, and don’t even behave like a woman, your identification is useless to me because there’s no social situation in which I’d categorize you as a woman.”

“See, gender isn’t just about you, it’s about everyone else too, how else can anyone say they’re attracted to women unless we could agree on what women are? If feelings were all that’s required for identification, then ‘gender’ would become a useless, irrelevant term.”

“When I say I’m attracted to only women and not men, I don’t mean people who feel like a woman, I couldn’t care less what you feel like, I’m attracted to women, and that has absolutely nothing to do with how someone feels as their sexual identity.”

“If, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger came out as a woman tomorrow, saying he identifies and feels like a woman, even dressing up in skirts, wearing make-up, and talking about feelings, that’s fine, but I’m still not attracted to Arnold.”

“And if gender terms changed to mean such things, I could no longer say things like ‘I’m attracted to women,’ doctors could no longer treat you based on gender because it no longer has any relevance to medical treatments, etc.”

“If you explicitly define ‘woman’ as one’s feeling like a woman, that definition is circular as it uses the very word you’re trying to define. If we don’t already know what woman is, this doesn’t tell you, we’d still have to ask, ‘feeling like what?’”

“If instead you define ‘woman’ as feeling like a female (sex understood purely biologically), the word is still useless because, according to you, some females feel like a female, and some females feel like a male, so we still don’t know what feeling you’re talking about.”

“And if you try to define the feeling in other ways, in neutral, qualitative categories like receptive, sexy, sensual, soft, etc. it’s still useless because everyone can feel this way, not just women, even many nonhumans I would think.”

“And you miss the whole point of gender terms like I said, in using them biologically/medically or using them socially, e.g. in expressing our sexual preferences, none of which involve your feelings, however way you define them.”

“You might as well identify as Humpty Dumpty and that would make as much sense, i.e. you make these words meaningless and meaningless words die because they’re not useful. No wonder you have to get the law involved to get people to adopt your stupid pronouns.”

“No man ‘transitions’ to a woman just because they feel too feminine, i.e. sensual, soft, empathetic, etc. because a man can feel that way while being a man, the only thing to be gained by the transition is the ability to have sex like a woman.”

“And if certain feelings or personality traits defined different genders, then we’d all be all genders because we are all capable of having those feelings or traits, once again making the category useless and meaningless.”

“We indeed associate traits like kindness and empathy with women and traits like courage and strength with men, because of the sex they’re typically associated with, but that does not define or change your gender.”

“Being very kind and empathetic does not make a man any less of a man, nor being very courageous and strong make a woman any less of a woman. These are virtues we all should strive for regardless of being a man or a woman.”

“So then it is a particular kind of sexual desire that’s behind the transition, not that you want to dress a certain way, behave a certain way, or even feel a certain way. You want to have sex like a woman; that’s the whole point behind the physical transition.”

“But prepubescent children do not have such sexual desires before their sexual awakening, so any transition at such age has nothing to do with their desires, but only the parents’ or the society’s desires.”

“Why would anyone even think of encouraging such children to become trans when it obviously has nothing to do with their wishes? To satisfy your ideology, your view of them? That’s an abuse beyond belief, the kind only the sick, woke ideology could come up with.”

“It is much worse than pedophilia because you’re violating their sexual identity without their consent for the rest of their lives while pedophilia, or any act of rape, is only temporary, something that can be overcome, even if it takes a long time.”

“Children cannot consent because they don’t even understand what’s involved, what’s being violated. And it is a violation because they already have a sexual identity which isn’t arbitrary but chosen by them pre-birth or by nature.”

“You dance around such horrible violation by blurring or pretending confusion of gender, even claiming that the child does not have gender, that a doctor merely ‘assigns’ a gender at birth as if it’s some arbitrary choice that could easily be otherwise.”

“Setting aside the obvious linguistic manipulation at sowing gender confusion, there’s no getting around the fact that you’re violating their sexual identity by ‘transitioning’ because there can be no confusion about their sex regardless of the confusion about gender.”

“What right do you have to violate and change who they already are without their consent? If you think it’s for their own good, you have a steep uphill battle to argue how such a drastic, permanent, risky change is for their good when you don’t even know the long-term effects.”

“Even children who have gone through puberty and had some sexual experiences do not understand the desire to have sex like a woman because they don’t know or understand that experience, only that their experience of masculine sex was unsatisfactory.”

“And instead of understanding and fixing what was unsatisfactory about it, you jump to the other possibility, the other sex, clinging to a hope that it’ll be better while not knowing at all what that’s like, what that involves, a risky gamble into the unknown.”

“Given that you’re more likely to be discriminated against and more likely to commit suicide, not to mention surgical complications, there better be one hell of a payoff but you have no idea, at best, don’t even know if it’ll be better than your current sexual identity.”

“Transitioning is a pretty iffy decision even for an adult, I don’t know how you could come up with a decent argument that it’s better for the child if you’re deciding for them. And your ideology has no place in such a decision.”

“And yet I see all these mindless, woke parents advocating for the transition as if it’s no big deal, as if their ideology will guarantee a good outcome, what the fuck is wrong with you? What kind of monster are you?”

“I get why the surgeons and the pharmaceutical companies that profit from this evil trend go along this disease of an ideology. It’s unforgivable, but at least it makes sense, their greed. But the parents who go along with it, I don’t understand, this level of stupidity.”

“Now you might say that some children do understand what decision this is, but the only way that’s possible is if most of their past lives have been to one sex such that the identification with that sex is so strong subconsciously despite being born a different sex this time.”

“But if so, there’s a good reason why you chose to be born to a different sex, and while for some of you, it might be to experience transsexuality, for others it is to experience and learn something else, but only you would know which is true.”

“And that knowing would most likely require a long journey into discovering who you are, what you came here for, and not something you could answer as a child for most of you, and certainly not by your stupid ideology.”

a monologue about social, political, and moral philosophy cleverly disguised as a dialogue between me and my imaginary daughter Annie: first, next.