- 14 Apr 2023 04:50
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This isn't so much about "Morals & Ethics" but is about philosophical and ideological issues, in the social sphere.
I know many of the readers here come from Europe, so what you have to realise is the transgender ideology has taken the U.S. by storm, like a new fad, becoming one of the biggest recent issues there.
Several years ago (maybe late 1998 to 2012) one of the "theories" coming from Progressives were that there are no fundamental differences between males and females, with the claim that it is almost entirely a just a "social construct".
For example, there were many progressives who absolutely denied that any male/female brain differences existed, and they absolutely couldn't be convinced otherwise.
But just a few years later, the "transgender" phenomena became the new leading ideology coming from Progressives.
But here's a question: If gender difference is almost entirely just a "social construct", why would it matter so much if an individual wants to be "male" or "female"? Wouldn't that just be an absurd and arbitrary designation?
It would just involve a few superficial differences in body appearance. Why support anyone going to the drastic effort of cutting and surgically altering their body, if gender does not really matter? And not only that, but the insistence they be recognised as the gender they want to identify as.
There appears to be a bit of cognitive dissonance, or a logical contradiction.
Can anyone please explain how these two different progressive-supported ideologies can possibly be reconciled with each other?
I know many of the readers here come from Europe, so what you have to realise is the transgender ideology has taken the U.S. by storm, like a new fad, becoming one of the biggest recent issues there.
Several years ago (maybe late 1998 to 2012) one of the "theories" coming from Progressives were that there are no fundamental differences between males and females, with the claim that it is almost entirely a just a "social construct".
For example, there were many progressives who absolutely denied that any male/female brain differences existed, and they absolutely couldn't be convinced otherwise.
But just a few years later, the "transgender" phenomena became the new leading ideology coming from Progressives.
But here's a question: If gender difference is almost entirely just a "social construct", why would it matter so much if an individual wants to be "male" or "female"? Wouldn't that just be an absurd and arbitrary designation?
It would just involve a few superficial differences in body appearance. Why support anyone going to the drastic effort of cutting and surgically altering their body, if gender does not really matter? And not only that, but the insistence they be recognised as the gender they want to identify as.
There appears to be a bit of cognitive dissonance, or a logical contradiction.
Can anyone please explain how these two different progressive-supported ideologies can possibly be reconciled with each other?