These Aren’t Innocent Questions. It’s an Anti-Trans Agenda.

‘Gender-criticalism’ is linked to right-wing agendas

Magnifying glass based on photo by Tumisu from Pixabay

Today’s anti-trans movement endorses a dualistic worldview of truth and falsehood, good and evil. In their discourse, sex (i.e., biology) is true and good, an assertion that allows a person to gender their life almost any way they like, free from value judgment, as long as the person uses approved language to clearly describe their sex in a binary way and doesn’t try to physically alter their physical sexual characteristics nor their social sex designation. By contrast, in their discourse, gender (i.e., culture) is false and evil, in the sense that one ought to hook justifications only to sex and never to gender, because gender is the fault of patriarchy, which manifests in sinister back-door channels through the deluded existence of trans people.

I wrote about that philosophy previously:

‘Gender-Critical’ Ideology is Just Dualism

These days, these people often call themselves “gender-critical.” Most (though not all) of them reject an earlier term, “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,”…