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pumpumdemsugah · 5 months

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Why do folks act like you can only acknowledge sex-based oppression and the reality of human sexual dimorphism if you want trans folks to die? Why are we acting like white folks made up ‘male’ and ‘female’ when every human culture knew what a male and a female was before colonialism existed and patriarchy has existed way before white supremacy did? Why?

It makes me uncomfortable bc you’d get labeled as a terf for saying this but the average irl person that isn’t chronically online holds these beliefs and still believes in trans rights and uses preferred pronouns. Hell, I have two nonbinary friends who recognize the reality of sex and sex-based oppression. I personally both recognize sex and believe that trans women have a place in our fight for women’s liberation. So like. Why are folks on the internet acting like it’s impossible? What is going on around here? Because I saw a (19 year old) person say ‘sex based oppression isn’t real socialization isn’t real yada yada yada that’s white colonial bullshit and if you believe otherwise then kill yourself’ and my eye twitched.

and it gets on my nerves bc most of the ppl saying this shit are Westerners! If they went to a non-West country and said this shit, I bet my left tit that they’d be looked at like they’re insane!

These people can say this for the same reason they hate radical feminists but recommend radical feminist Audre Lorde, they don't read or comprehend, they regurgitate talking points and see Black women not as academics or peers but tokens to invoke without knowing what they believe. It's arrogance, self righteousness and anti-intellectualism mixed together. Non-western cultures now all have the same ideas about gender that all support whatever some white American says. I think what's crazy is how incredibly racist the entire thing is and ahistorical. It's shrunk the experiences of everyone else so white western losers can feel more complex

I do not trust white people that bring up Black women to talk about gender in the modern sense because they always get racist and make shit up

Social media has melted everyone's brain so much everyone is making extreme claims grounded in wish fulfillment . Online liberals are acting and pushing the idea that sex is fake but the Blacks are just built different with one body plan. Please ignore that because human beings spend most of our time in Africa, African people have the most genetic diversity compared to every other group in the world . White people think complexity only applies to them. They did this before with race science and they're doing it again. Educated white people without expertise are making shit up

Male & female is fake but big negro bone is real and that research about bones, race and osteoporosis, I've read it, it doesn't say what online people say it does, you're just racist. It's projecting body insecurities onto Black women as inherent qualities of our bodies so their white body is normal and a problem that was a them thing is an us thing but this isn't racist and demeaning. Online liberals want us to be a permanent Other so they feel normal then claim it's solidarity not racial hierarchy by another name. The dehumanisation of enslaved Black women is brought up not to talk about slavery but to Other the bodies of dead tortured Black women and ask the living ones to agree because they said magic buzz words. Online people don't bring up slavery to talk about what white people did but to add sex characteristics they want Black women to have and rewrite history. Slave master didn't think Black people felt pain so performed surgery without anesthesia on enslaved Black women that needed to be held down because someone that needs to be held down commonly is a sign she doesn't feel pain. Slave masters knew they were chatting shit.

Talk about how WOC don't fit the gender binary because of white supremacist dehumanisation has become talk that our bodies are wrong and weird and that's why. The blame for shifted from white people's racism to, of course the non-white have wacky body plans. Do they even think we're people? Conservatives and dumb dumbs acting like the sexual dimorphism in human beings is extreme ( it's not ) and that's why male and female artistic gymnastics is so different. Not training or history and using it as a cover for mockery and sexism so now regular men are challenging actual female athletes ( and losing ) under the delusional being male is enough

The online left and right are so are stupid about this but everyone ends up affirming centuries old ideas about race and women. What's annoying is people that say sex is fake aren't being truthful, it's fake for white people as they transcend language but the crudely made Others, we're bigger and badly made and that's why they're normal. Solidarity though

Why does it need to be explained that Blackness isn't a sexed quality or characteristic ? It's unbelievably offensive. None of these people are as intellectually curious as they claim they are. None of them have read anything about slavery, colonialism or feminism. They saw a post.

#anonymous #asks #long posts #you cant edit asks anymore so if there's a mistake 🤷🏾‍♀️#i dont check my notes so @ me because i likely wont see it or respond #i also know who ann fausto sterling is and read one of her books in 2008 #i do not need to be educated #i am #ive read the article about how hormones dont work the way we think it does and it's brilliant

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rincewindsapprentice · 2 years

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Don’t you mean gender? Gender as in the social constructed part. Culture around sexism and understanding of sex.

Meanwhile the sexes of humans doesn’t swap in and out with prevailing socio economic systems any more than the sex of any other great ape does. We aren’t snails nor are we cultural figments of our own (or any gods’) imaginations.

I do actually mean sex, not gender.

How we have understood sex (as in the biological/physical part) has changed over time and across societies. While you are right in that the sexes of humans don't just swap in and out over time, how we understand, separate, and construct them (often literally) does. While this is still "cultural," what we mean by sex shifts in dramatic ways that has effects beyond just gender roles.

For example, how we define what makes sex has shifted in dramatic ways in just the West. Earlier definitions were based on the system of humors, with men being "warm" while women were "cold," yet how even this system was interpreted also shifted from time and place, especially given the possibility of "warm" women and "cold" men. In the medieval period, social role (what we now understand as gender) was just as important as physiology, sometimes more important. What was the primary importance for determining cases of ambiguous sex was that someone stay in one gender role (ie, that they stay either passive or active; given the social advantage men had, individuals under examination by juries and their families would generally push for them to be men, regardless of their "actual" sex as we would understand it).

How we have interpreted and "dealt" with issues of ambiguous sex (now generally understood as intersexuality) has even shifted. There were understandings of sex in the ancient and medieval periods that conceived of more than just two sexes (considering the ambiguous cases not just as aberrations of the "real" sex, but distinct sexes unto themselves). For those with ambiguous sexual characteristics, courts were the primary tool for determining a "final" gender, with an individual often part of these discussions. It was only later that surgeons and medical professionals asserted their expertise in answering these questions, eventually leading to literal surgeries performed on adults with ambiguous sexual characteristics to "fix" them to a specific sex, and to argue that there were only two sexes with ambiguous cases being aberrations of "real" sex.

Fast forward to the modern period and how we define sex has shifted dramatically, from outward appearance of genitals ("how long is the clitoris/penis?" "is there an opening between the anus and the clitoris/penis?") to gonads (~late 19th, early 20th), to hormones (early 20th, until men were found to have estrogen), to chromosomes (mid-20th until chromosomal differences were discovered), to even differences in the brain structure today. That list is not even exhaustive. (Anne Fausto-Sterling's work is informative here)

With regards to binary sex itself, how it is understood and to what extent it existed has also shifted tremendously. For example, the Mishnah, the codification of Jewish oral laws from 200 CE, outlines four, or up to eight, different categories of sex determined by a wide variety of means. Many early Christians understood sex in a kind of binary+ way, with there being male, female, and a gradation between the two (including an androgyny). Later understandings of binary sex in the West tended to argue that the level of binary division between the sexes itself demonstrated its level of civilization, in very clear racist (or proto-racist) terms. Thus, medieval mappamundi often included depictions of exotic two-sexed individuals (literally split in half). Later scientific racists in the 18th and 19th centuries argued that "savage" people had increasingly blurry divisions between sexes, with some arguing that the "most savage" were composed of completely ambiguous sexes, while Europeans supposedly had clearly and starkly defined binary sexes.

None of this, of course, addresses non-Western views of sex and gender, which vary wildly across societies and time, and it is not really my place to outline them here (in part because I am a white American without situated knowledge of the systems themselves).

As far as goes the idea of the sexes of humans literally swapping, the intervention of surgeons since the 14th century has facilitated that as cases of ambiguous sex were "corrected" through surgical technique. This did, at times, switch someone's sex (and especially gender role) as parts were amputated or closed (or opened and extended). While first performed only on adults, nowadays such surgeries are performed on infants at the point of birth, with even more invasive procedures enabled by findings in endocrinology. This is the realm where intersex activism aims to intervene as the vast majority of these surgeries have and are now used to prevent "social destruction," not improve the life of the individual.

As far as the tags in my post, when the West came to adopt a strictly binary view of sex (there is only "male" and "female," with ambiguous cases aberrations of a "male" or "female") is a matter of often heated debate. Some argue that binary sex emerged with the translation of Arabic texts in the 12th century and the professionalization of surgeons in the 13th and 14th centuries (see Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance). Others point to such a surgical invention as late as the 19th century (see Geertje Mak, Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, bodies, and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories). If you throw the name "Thomas Laqueur" into an assemblage of early modern historians or classicists, you'll likely cause a fistfight.

So yes, I do in fact mean sex. It is just as socially (and literally) constructed as gender is.

Further reading:

Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (2000)

Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (2021)

Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child (2018)

Kimberly Hamlin, "The "Case of a Bearded Woman": Hypertrichosis and the Construction of Gender in the Age of Darwin," American Quarterly, 63 no 4 (2011)

Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990)

Geertje Mak, Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, bodies, and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories (2012)

Marianne Schleicher, "Constructions of Sex and Gender: Attending to Androgynes and "Tumtumin" through Jewish Scriptual Use," Literature and Theology 25 no 4 (2011)

Michael Stolberg, "A Woman Down to Her Bones: The Anatomy of Sexual Difference in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries," Isis 94 no 2 (2003)

#history #asks #this accidentally posted early so I guess it won't show up in tags :)#but yeah this is partly what I study #if any of you want to read any of these #just message me and I can send them! (most likely)#highly suggest Anne Fausto-Sterling's work

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k8leggedfr34k · 2 months

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"well VERY FEW people are--" buddy. My guy. Being intersex is about as likely as being a redhead. Sex is as much of a spectrum as gender is. And we made up gender. Everybody has a different construction of it. It varies by person, it varies by culture. Buddy. It's okay. We can just be people.

#may i direct u to the works of #anne-fausto sterling #academia

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oh-dear-so-queer · 2 months

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In 1990, the idea of two sexes was challenged by the work of Anne Fausto Sterling who identified five sexes, which she refined into a theory of gradations of sex on a continuum, and suggested the new term gender/sex to reflect that biology is directly affected by culture since what someone does becomes imprinted on their neuromuscular response, and activity affects sex hormones: gentle nurturing parenting diminishes testosterone in women and men.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quote #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #90s #1990s #20th century #anne fausto sterling #gender theory #biology #neuromuscular response #hormones #testosterone #nurturing

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albertserra · 2 years

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my trans/faggot reading list

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halbertsam

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

gay masculinities by peter nardi

Homosexuality in Cold War America : Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J Corber

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets

nevada by imogen binnie

gender nihilism by alyson escalante + addendum

Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans: An Introduction

Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement by Jian Neo Chen

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (various)

Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities Sadie E Hale and Tomás Ojeda

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by grace e lavery

delusions of gender by cordelia fine

a failed man by michael v smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

time is the thing a body moves through by T. Fleischmann

kai cheng thom’s writing

we want it all: an anthology of trans radical poetics

second skins: the body narratives of transsexuality by jay prossner

transgender warriors by leslie feinberg

the faggots and their friends between revolutions by larry mitchell

translating the queer: body politics and transnational conversations by hector dominguez ruvalcaba

captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex

we both laughed in pleasure: the selected diaries of lou sullivan

how we get free: black feminism and the combahee river collective

trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer

dagger: on butch women by lily burana

black queer studies: a critical anthology by e patrick johnson and mae g Henderson

queer sex by juno roche

black on both sides: a racial history of trans identities by C. Riley Snorton

transgender liberation by leslie feinberg

female masculinity by jack halberstam

transecology by douglas a vakoch

street transvestite action revolutionaries : survival, revolt, and queer antagonistic struggle (Sylvia Rivera , Marsha P. Johnson)

a body that is ultra body: in conversation with fred moten and elysia crampton

building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we’ve got (morgan bassichis, alexander lee and dean spade, 2011)

feminism and the (trans)gender entrapment of gender nonconforming prisoners (julia oparah, 2012)

normal life: administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law (dean spade, 2015)

Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera by Việt Lê

detransition, baby by torrey peters

paul takes the form of a mortal girl by andrea lawlor

a failed man by michael v. smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

my new vagina wont make me happy by andrea long chu

sexing the body by Anne Fausto-Sterling

something that may shock and discredit you by danny lavery

the argonauts by maggie nelson

gender outlaws by kate bornstein

special mentions for articles ive read that were already very formative for me

Masquerading As the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic, William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film by Steven Cohan

The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Minnelli's "Tea and Sympathy” by David Gerstner

huge thanks to @mypocketsnug who sent #20-40

this is not at all intended to be some kind of definitive resource as ive literally read none of these yet save for the two i mention at the bottom and im compiling this for my personal use, im only publishing this bc an anon asked me to! feel free to reblog and also recommend me more but keep this disclaimer in mind

#reading list

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probablyasocialecologist · 11 months

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If you have the time, could I possibly get some nonfiction reading recommendations from you? Subject regardless :)

Sure!

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century by Rodrigo Aguilera

The Future is Degrowth by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

A People's Green New Deal by Max Ajl

After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett

Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World by Kolya Abramsky

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Drugs without the hot air: Making sense of legal and illegal drugs by David J. Nutt

#anon adventures #asks

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 9 months

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By: Talia Nava

Published: Mar 13, 2023

It is often claimed by many trans activists that genocide is being committed against the trans community via “anti-trans laws.”

More recently, Anne Fausto-Sterling, a biologist and trans activist, made this very argument in a post made on Twitter and Mastodon, another social media alternative. Accusations of genocide are very serious and should not be used without good reason.

This begs the question: is genocide being committed against the trans community?

Let's break it down piece by piece.

What is genocide?

The term genocide typically brings up images from intolerable injustices committed against various groups in history. The most pronounced being the Holocaust committed against the European Jewish people by the Nazis in Germany. This is because the term genocide was explicitly defined as a result of the Holocaust during the Geneva Convention in 1948-1949. The documents created during the Geneva Convention describe genocide as:

“genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…”[1]

The Convention further described the elements of genocide as:

“1. A mental element: the ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such’; and

2. A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

Killing members of the group.

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.’”

Using these very specific qualifications, let's go step by step to see if there is a genocide against trans people.

Intent

The very first part includes the mental element of intent. There are two parts to this mental element. The first is the intent to destroy. The second is the definition of what kind of group is being targeted, specifically religious, ethnic, racial, or national group.

Are trans people a religious, ethnic, racial, or national group?

Intent is already very difficult to determine, and as mentioned in the definition of genocide is the most difficult to prove. Is the intent of many of these lawmakers to completely eliminate “trans” individuals? If you look into the motive behind many laws being passed, the people proposing these bills state that they intend to protect children from sexually explicit content that they are not old enough to be able to handle.

Let's look at the example of the Florida bill known colloquially as “Don't Say Gay.” Officially labeled “Parental Rights in Education,” the bill restricts discussing the topics of gender identity and sexual orientation in grades kindergarten through the third grade.[2] Age wise, this includes children age 4-9. Why this age group?

Psychologist Jean Piaget, who explicitly studied cognitive development, defines two stages involving this age group: preoperational (ages 2-7) and concrete operational (ages 7-11). One of the major differences in these age groups is the change from self centered thinking in the preoperational stage to being able to separate themselves from the topic being discussed in the concrete operational stage.[3] What does this mean? It means children age 2-7 tend to apply everything that they learn to themselves. If you discuss gender identity to this age group, they are more likely to conclude that their gender identity is also in question.

In other words, children in this age group literally can't think about these topics outside of themselves. Is protecting children from topics they are not capable of handling appropriately trying to eliminate trans people?

The other example to think of here is the issue of child centered drag performances. Authors of these bills have explicitly said that the goal is to protect children from adult content. You certainly wouldn't want to show a child pornographic material, would you? Is protecting children from adult material attempting to erase trans people?

For the matter of the mental element of genocide, I think it has not been met in terms of trans individuals.

The Physical Element

The physical element includes five acts that meet the conditions of genocide. There are a few that can be eliminated automatically. The first is killing trans people. There is no group in the US that makes a deliberate attempt to kill trans people. The second that can be dismissed is causing serious body or mental harm to a group. There is no group that intends to cause serious bodily or mental harm to trans people.

That leaves us with three remaining acts, let's look at them in detail.

Conditions of Life

“Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

There are many that claim that laws being passed to prevent “gender affirming care” are being passed to attack the trans community. Advocates claim that “gender affirming care” is “life saving care” and that not having these treatments results in trans people committing suicide.

Is this true? One of the largest studies of its kind says it isn't true. The Swedish study found that suicidality remained virtually constant at every stage of transition from the initiation of hormones to after surgical procedures.[4]

Recently, reports out of the UK from Tavistock clinics have indicated that these treatments aren't helpful either. But the UK is “transphobic,” right? Except they are not the first to make this observation. This Finnish study from 2019 demonstrates that cross sex hormones aren't enough to give relief from gender dysphoria.[5]

This probably explains why Finland has changed their protocols for treating gender dysphoria and why they suggest intensive psychotherapy instead of the gender affirming model.[6]

In 2020, Sweden also had to change their policies, putting a halt to hormonal and surgical interventions and instead opting for psychosocial support until adulthood. Apparently, after extensive research, they determined the risks outweigh the benefits.[7] It's probably why France followed soon after.[8] The most recent country to implement changes is Norway, who has determined that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender affirming surgeries are experimental and lack evidence proving efficacy.[9]

If it is true these treatments don't actually prevent suicide, then can you say that preventing these treatments is causing suicide?

What other options are there? According to the available research, the vast majority of children who identify as trans don't carry that identity into adulthood. In fact, the percent of kids who “grow out of” their trans identity is somewhere between 68-90%.[10]

This is likely why the medical organizations from these other countries suggest psychosocial support to adulthood. But does the psychosocial support actually work?

One study has shown that group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was able to significantly improve the moods and outlooks of trans identifying teens. It also gave them coping mechanisms to help cope with the many social pressures that trans and gender nonconforming individuals experience.[11]

Why are these therapies not being sought after by trans activists?

Jack Turban, a prominent trans activist and medical doctor, wrote a study that identified anything except for the gender affirming model of treatment as “conversion therapy.”[12] This has been turned into a rallying cry for trans activists, who claim that any psychosocial therapy is conversion therapy and an attempt to eliminate trans people.

If “gender affirming care” doesn't work, is pushing for “gender affirming care” pushing for suicide?

If most kids grow out of their trans identity, is pushing for “gender affirming care” pushing for harm against a community?

Is discouraging use of therapy that works in favor of “gender affirming care" pushing a group into self destruction via suicide?

Preventing Birth

“Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group…”

During the Holocaust, many individuals had medical experiments performed on them and often these experiments were done with the intent to prevent pregnancies or to eliminate the fertility of these individuals.

Is this happening in the trans community?

Let's take a closer look into what treatments people are seeking, since so many of these laws are looking at preventing treatments. For younger people, the traditional thing they want to do is block puberty. And the most common medication to block puberty is Lupron. But is that the only thing the drug is used for?

No, it's not.

Lupron is in fact the same medication Canada and the US uses to chemically castrate sex offenders and pedophiles to control their sexual urges.[13]

In addition, cross-sex hormone therapy has a known risk to permanently and irreversibly damage the reproductive systems of individuals undergoing these treatments.[14]

These are treatments that many of these laws are trying to ban in children. Trans activists claim that these laws are an attempt at genocide, and yet these “gender-affirming” treatments are doing harm that can actually be considered genocidal…

Forcibly transferring children…

“Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Despite the clear harm that can be caused by these treatments, some still push for these treatments. What happens to those who object to these treatments?

Some parents are now having their children taken from them for not pursuing the gender affirming model. Unfortunately, these cases happen with divorced parents where one parent refuses to consent to these treatments.[15][16]

Not only are some children being removed from their parents, but in some cases, children are leaving of their own accord.

California senator Scott Wiener authored a law that will take in families of trans identifying children who are seeking “gender affirming care.” The bill will also take children into custody of the state to allow for them to seek out medical transition.[17] This law went into effect January 1, 2023.

Of note, it is also Scott Wiener who proposed a bill in 2020 which does not require people who commit acts of oral or anal sex on minors to be registered as sex offenders.[18] It seems concerning that a person who is interested in protecting pedophiles also is interested in removing children from their parents.

Who Is Committing Genocide?

The claim of genocide by trans activists like Anne Fausto-Sterling appears to have no legs to stand on. For one, there is no clear intent to commit genocide against trans people, but additionally the trans community is not of any particular nationality, ethnicity, race, or official religion (although one could argue that transgender ideology is a religion, it is not a recognized religious group).

But, if one could prove intent, who is actually committing acts that would qualify as genocide?

Who is promoting treatments that don't prevent suicide in trans people while simultaneously calling treatments that help trans people “conversion therapy”?

Who is promoting treatments that eliminate and prevent births and pregnancies in trans individuals?

Who is removing children from families who question if these treatments are worth the harmful side effects?

It appears the group that is most harmful to trans identifying individuals are the activists who claim to be protecting them.

You have to remember this is a postmodern "genocide." I've been accused of this myself, endorsing "cultural genocide" for celebrating the ongoing decline of religion (as a hypocritical bigot, this person was completely content with the decline of Xianity; she didn't see that as "cultural genocide"). I've covered this in depth, but in summary, it's all about labels.

If children are encouraged or facilitated to complete puberty unimpeded, they'll more than likely (80+%) resolve the discomfort with their body, and they won't feel the compulsion to transition. They won't take wrong-sex hormones, with the risks and irreversible effects that go along with them, they won't amputate body parts, and they won't become life-long medical patients.

But social constructivists don't care about any of that. They even tell lawmakers that it's unacceptable, and even bigoted, to regard transition as an undesirable outcome. They don't care about the wellbeing of kids. They don't care about the individual. Critical theorists themselves will complain that there has been too much focus in the individual and the universal, and not enough on identity characteristics.

What they care about is blurring boundaries and subverting biology. What they care about is bolstering and populating novel "identity" groups. What they care about is that kids might no longer need to think of themselves as "trans." That's it. That's the entire "genocide."

It's eerily like Islam. In Islam, believers are either part of the thing, or we kill you. In genderism, believers are either part of the thing, or they've been "genocided." They're both absolutist ideologies, they just differ on being the aggressor or a manufactured victimhood.

If medical science intervenes and repairs a defect which prevents a baby from hearing, that's "erasure" of "deaf identity" and, as Nyle DiMarco melodramatically wails, "cultural genocide."

In a similar vein, "fat genocide" is the “the effort to eradicate fat people via weight loss as a form of genocide perpetrated by the medical profession” (direct quote from Fat Studies literature). You heard that right. Encouraging people to eat healthier and exercise is a form of "genocide," because there will be fewer fat people. Or more accurately, fewer people who "identify as" fat. And "erasing" an "identity" group is "genocide."

If you think the language is bizarrely histrionic, you'd be right. And if it sounds exceedingly unhealthy, you'd be right about that too. But it's not an accident or sincere misunderstanding. It's deliberate. The point is to use the most incendiary language possible, to warn you off getting in their way. It's why they've labeled trying to address a trans-identifying girl's homosexual shame or a trans-identifying boy's sexual abuse trauma as "conversion therapy." It's deliberately intended to make you think of ice dunking or electroshock treatments that gay men were subjected to, trying to make them "straight." Rather than what it is: normal, everyday talk therapy to resolve distress.

Like a brightly colored frog warning you it's poisonous. Ignore it. Unlike the frog, there's no substance, only the mimicry of substance.

More insidiously, it's intended to create panic in kids, that there's gangs of people roaming out there trying to murder you, or your government actively wants you dead. Even your parents are suspect. You can only trust your "trans family." We're the only ones who understand you. It's classic cult tactics. And comparable to when religions send believers out to proselytize. It's not to convert the non-believers, but to create uncomfortable interactions with non-believers so the faithful will be drawn back to the safety of their fellow believers. Us vs them.

#Talia Nava #gender ideology #queer theory #genderwang #trans genocide #genocide #cultural genocide #religion is a mental illness

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radfembri · 3 months

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forgot my professor identified as nonbinary and i turned in a paper with a whole paragraph on how anne fausto-sterling’s intersex “research” was debunked 22 years ago :P

#can’t wait to see my grade on that…#sometimes i just forget i live in an uber liberal area and questioning gender identity is treated like a war crime #it was relevant at least—i was writing a response to a chapter in our literary analysis textbook on feminist critique and that chapter #devolved into a ‘gender theory’ chapter (even though there’s another chapter in the book on ‘q***r theory’)#the author quoted that bunk study by afs and this edition came out 13 years after it had been debunked #so there’s literally no reason it was included as if it meant anything

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ghelgheli · 8 months

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The Stuff I Read in September 2023

Stuff I Extra Liked Is Bold

Books

Orphans of the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

All Systems Red, Martha Wells

Artificial Condition, Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells

Exit Strategy, Martha Wells

Friendship Poems, ed. Peter Washington

Introduction to Linear Algebra, ch. 1-3, Gilbert Strang

Manga (mostly yuri [really all yuri])

Yagate Kimi ni Naru / Bloom Into You, Nio Nakatani

Kaketa Tsuki to Dōnattsu / Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Shio Usui

Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shitemita / Trying Out Marriage With My Female Friend, Shio Usui

Kimi no Tame ni Sekai wa Aru / The World Exists for You, Shio Usui

Teiji ni Agaretara / If We Leave on the Dot, Ayu Inui

Nikurashii Hodo Aishiteru / I Love You So Much I Hate You, Ayu Inui

Tsukiatte Agetemo Ī Kana / How Do We Relationship? Tamifull

Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku / Uniforms at the Age of Nineteen, Ryou Minenami

Colorless Girl, Honami Shirono

Short Fiction

It gets so lonely here, ebi-hime [itch.io]

Aye, and Gomorrah, Samuel R. Delaney [strange horizons]

Evolutionary Game Theory

Red Queen and Red King Effects in cultural agent-based modeling: Hawk Dove Binary and Systemic Discrimination, S. M. Amadae & Christopher J. Watts [doi]

The Evolution of Social Norms, H. Peyton Young [doi]

The Checkerboard Model of Social Interaction, James Sakoda [doi]

Dynamic Models of Segregation, Thomas C. Schelling [doi]

Towards a Unified Science of Cultural Evolution, Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N. Laland [doi]

Is Human Cultural Evolution Darwinian? Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N. Laland [doi]

Gender/Sexuality/Queer Stuff (up to several degrees removed)

Re-orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World, Joseph Massad [link]

The Empire of Sexuality, Joseph Massad (interview) [link]

The Bare Bones of Sex, Anne Fausto-Sterling [jstor]

On the Biology of Sexed Subjects, Helen Keane & Marsha Rosengarten [doi]

Vacation Cruises: Or, the Homoerotics of Orientalism, Joseph A. Boone [jstor]

Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the “Third Gender” Concept, Evan B. Towle & Lynn M. Morgan [doi]

Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body, Siobhan Somerville [jstor]

White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence, Sunny Woan [link]

Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory’s Affective Histories, Kadji Amin [jstor]

Annoying Anthro

The Sexual Division of Labor, Rebecca B. Bird, Brian F. Codding [researchgate]

Factors in the Division of Labor by Sex: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, George P. Murdock & Caterina Provost [jstor]

Biosocial Construction of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior, Wendy Wood & Alice H. Eagly [doi]

Political Theory

Some critics argue that the Internal Colony Theory is outdated. Here’s why they’re wrong, Patrick D. Anderson [link]

Toward a New Theory of Internal Colonialism, Charles Pinderhughes [link]

The Anatomy of Iranian Racism: Reflections on the Root Causes of South Azerbaijans Resistance Movement, Alireza Asgharzadeh [link]

The veil or a brother's life: French manipulations of Muslim women's images during the Algerian War, 1954–62, Elizabeth Perego [doi]

A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare, Kenneth J. Arrow [jstor]

Manipulation of Voting Schemes: A General Result, Allan Gibbard [jstor]

China Has Billionaires, Roderic Day [redsails]

Other

Conversations I Can't Have, Cassandra Byers Harvin [proquest]

Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492, Alexander Koch et al. [doi]

Why prisons are not “The New Asylums”, Liat Ben-Moshe [doi]

Uses of Value Judgments in Science: A General Argument, with Lessons from a Case Study of Feminist Research on Divorce, Elizabeth Anderson [doi]

Boundary Issues, Lily Scherlis [link]

#reading prog #can you tell i've been depression-reading yuri #these categories are so janky a lot of the yuri is technically short fiction the murderbot series is novelettes etc. etc.#also murderbot is yuri

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