‘Gender-Critical’ Ideology is Just Dualism

The ‘GC’ worldview is a split between good and evil, physical and mental

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In moral discourse, it’s common for people to boil down their defense to: Well, this is just obvious to me, and it‘d be obvious to you, too, if you’d open your eyes, ears, mind, and heart.

You know the attitude I’m referring to: My god is self-evident and righteous; your god is lying and demonic.

Today, this is playing out as a discourse about transgender people, specifically in an ideology that calls itself “gender-critical.” Its chosen moniker is a tip-off, as it invokes the double-meaning of “critical” — deep thinking that’s focused on pointing out someone else’s flaws. It wants to credit itself as being rational while flagging transgender people as being unable to think properly.

The so-called “gender-critical” position is that:

• Sex (reproductive biology) is binary (male or female); almost always unambiguous and apparent; and, in the rare cases when it’s not, the intersex person is the exception who proves the rule. Sex is a simple fact about our bodies.
• Gender (roles, illusions, assumptions, and stereotypes) is inherently oppressive. There’s no such thing as “identifying with” or “feeling like” a particular gender, apart…