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There is some sense among students more recently ( since pandemic) that one shouldn’t be asked to work hard if one belongs to some “oppressed community” and that asking people to read for class and exams is perpetuating brahminism. There are also idiots on twitter who think their identity gives them Moral and intellectual authority when they write about caste/gender because “lived experience” but there are always idiots on twitter. on universities it is just silly students mimicking American student politics. And no one serious or important takes these arguments seriously.
There is a problem with group think and dogmatism and post modern nonsense in the academic left. Sometimes they earnestly believe things without questioning them because they bought into a whole set of beliefs together as an identity (so like trans/ Hamas support even when it harms other “oppressed groups” is pretty messy) but almost everyone you meet in person you can argue with and disagree with and be friends with. It’s not that bad.
Explain to me what "knowing youre born in the wrong body" means? Whose body do trans identified people wish they were born in? Explain to me what it means to "feel like a woman" or "live as a woman"? what do women feel like? how is the entire thing not built on regressive sex stereotypes? If I as a woman decided to become a part time scientist part time crime fighter tomorrow- lets say I become spider man/ iron man/ whatever- does that mean I am playing the social role of a man and therefore my inner gender identity (soul) is a man? How do souls know what sexes conform to what socially specific stereotypes anyway? do babies know what a barbie or a GI Joe are and know what these stereotypes are when they are born? What part of the brain or the body does your gender identity reside in?
How does one tell which man in a dress is a real "trans woman" and a perv who wants to harass girls in the bathroom? Where is any scientific proof at all for gender identities? Why should women pay the price and let their spaces and quotas and safety be ruined to accommodate these special priests of the woke church?
How is putting young children- sometimes very young- on "puberty blockers "- or drugs used to castrate sex offenders and treat cancer despite knowing the risks to health- from osteoporosis to sexual dysfunction- not something a religious cult would do? How is all this changing bodies through surgery not similar to religious dogma from circumcision to FGM ?
This trans ideology where you have to repeat the mantra of "trans women are women" is a religious movement. It seeks your submission by having you first assert something you know deep down is untrue . And it tells you that people who do not believe ( who are apostates or non believers) are evil bigots out to hurt the good people. It tells you that playing along with the nonsense- pronoun rituals and such- is what makes you a good and kind person. It even has extremists who will call for punching and killing all terfs. And the people in the movement have the same evangelical zeal and cognitive dissonance that people in cults do. Look up what "cracking an egg" is and what " internalised transphobia" is. The movement has its extremists. Go ahead- look up the phrase "Kill Terfs" "Rape Terfs" on twitter. There are mass shootings committed by trans identified individuals- did you even know that? Tell me these are harmless people who just want to pee. A movement which tells you there is to be " no debate", that tells you" the science is settled" while it discourages rudimentary data collection (allice sullivan) is not a social justice movement- its a religious movement.
An ideology that tells you there is such a thing as a " girl cock" and that a raped woman should not expect her crisis shelter to be male free because thats bigoted, that women do not have the right to demand same sex care in the hospital and must consent to being touched by a male bodied person or they should not be treated, and that lesbians must accept dating male bodied people to remain on the good side is about as religious as it can get. A movement that tells you that gay male misogyny in drag shows are something we should introduce to children in libraries is religious. A movement that repeatedly creates content aimed at children- tik toks and books and videos and even cartoons- that tells kids they should cut contact with their parents if they do not agree with the tenets of its ideology- is a religious movement. Its a cult.
This movement does not behave at all like a civil rights movement. there is high control and coordination and funding from billionaire- look up jennifer bileks work and who penny pritzker is. This movement runs away from media coverage instead of seeking it. This movement is top down and not ground up at all.
Before you tell me " that doesnt happen". Look it up. It happens all the time. Look up reduxx, look up what happened to kathleen stock, read some julie bindel, read some germaine greer, look up what happened to graham linehan and hear the witch trials podcast. Read what happened to Jesse Singal after he wrote fairly mild articles for the New York Times. These are all people with extremely credible leftist backgrounds and views who have been silenced and shamed by this movement. I bet you think somethings about them that are not true. If you run away from arguments because someone else told you its "transphobic"- you've outsourced your thinking. That's very religious. Look up vancouver rape relief. Look up Wii Spa. Look up what fallon fox did and what lia thomas did. Look up Hannah Barnes' book "Time to think". And read some helen joyce while youre at it.
If you dont want to listen to any of these people- please please listen to trans people, go to r/mtf and r/detrans. Do that everyday for ten days and tell me what you read does not cause any discomfort. Read Andrea Long Chu's females and tell me you agree with him on what female-ness is. Read gender queer and tell me this person ever manages to actually explain herself at all. Read that post by Alok Vaid Menon where he calls little girls "kinky". Look up jeffrey marsh and rachel mckinnon. Read what happened to keira bell. Watch that jazz jennings stuff - really watch it.
I was a trans rights activist until I actually educated myself and paid attention to what was going on. Changed my mind over night.
Young people have been indoctrinated into believing this trans ideology stuff the same way theyre indoctrinated into believing Hamas is made of freedom fighters who are resisting by raping dismembering and killing women and children. And there is a real human cost to both of these religious movements- its the biggest medical scandal of our time how this transitioning children stuff.
Its easy to dismiss people who disagree with you as being " out of their mind". When you dont bother to find out why they think what they do.