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Transgender ideologists insist that there are more than two human sexes and that what a person “feels” or “believes” their sex to be trumps their biology. This is unscientific nonsense. Humans – like all mammals – have bodies optimized to produce one of two possible gametes: sperm or ovum. There is no third gamete, hence there is no third sex.

From the assertion that a person’s sex is whatever that person believes it to be, comes the dictum: “trans women are women”. In other words, we are asked to accept that a person born biologically male is really a female if he believes himself to be. This belief, this faith-based assertion is no different than any anti-scientific religious catechism. Individuals have a right to those beliefs, but they don’t have the right to impose them on others.

And that is the key difference between the fight for gay/lesbian rights and modern transgender ideology. The former asks only the right to live in peace, unharassed and unencumbered. The latter (trans ideologists) go a step further, demanding not just civil and human rights for themselves – a concept that all thinking people should support – but also that everyone must accept their unscientific religious doctrine (that “trans women are women”.) They demand not only the right to believe that personal thoughts can trump biological reality, but that EVERYONE ELSE MUST CONCUR with that belief and allow it to be codified in law and public policy, regardless of the affect that might have on women, gays, lesbians, children and democratic rights more broadly. In such a world the book "The Emperor’s New Clothes" could never have been written.

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CF's avatar

This is a very good basis for average citizens an understanding of the current zealous ideology floating into their world from out of nowhere. There should be a basis for categorizing and discussing this movement. Even more importantly their shallow demands should not be catered too. Great article.

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