Sex is Subset of Gender is Subset of Sex?

Anyone advocating for castration, mastectomies, or tracheal ‘shaves’ in teenage children has either made the zero evidence-based determination that this child will never have gender fluidity, or they simply don’t care if they end up being dead wrong.

So far, no medical science has any way of predicting whether or not someone will become gender fluid, which by the logic of the trans movement, would quite possibly necessitate a different body form, for example their old body form. A post-operation option shuts away from the child forever their ability to get their old body back.

This contradicts the transactivist’s other prevalently expressed notion that gender is a social construct. A big, bald burly guy with a five o’clock shadow and a deep voice who decides to identify as a woman should never ever have their ‘reality’ challenged because sex (I presume to mean at least in part necessitates penis or breasts), has nothing to do with actual gender.

Sometimes activists of this ideology conflate sex and gender, insisting it is inhumane to prevent someone from getting out of the body they feel trapped in (presumably either a ‘female’ or a ‘male’ body, which isn’t this a label on their part?), and sometimes they insist the two are totally unrelated. How can the trans movement expect people to understand their argument when it is intellectual incoherent? Gender cannot logically be a subset of sex, while sex is also a subset of gender.

I hear many trans activists say doctors ‘assign’ sex at birth, as if by some arbitrary guesswork, rather than a scientific observation made with every other mammal on the planet. Then they say that it is ‘oppressive’ to think that sex equals gender. Yet they then admit there is a correlation between sex and gender when they are telling a confused child who likes or dislikes certain things that this must mean they are the opposite sex.

They plant the ideological seed in a confused child’s mind that they need to decide whether their gender is in ‘alignment’ with their biological sex, which would necessitate medicalizing an otherwise physically healthy child. So now they are admitting there is a rule to have an exception to. Now all gender-affirmers are onboard to talk the confused child into ‘matching’ their body with their gender, in spite of the risk of surgeries and medications with known and unknown long term side effects.

The clinics themselves are admitting they don’t know for sure what the permanent longterm effects will be, although they do in passing mention early onset osteoporosis, incontinence and a variety of chronic pain issues in the newly created ‘sex organs’ are possible outcomes.

They also admit they won’t know for sure what will happen until the transitioned child is older, since it is a new use of a medication that has already been reported via class action lawsuit to trigger longterm and severe chronic pain issues. I’ve heard about this the most by listening to the dozens of personal stories of people struggling with chronic medical issues brought on by the supposed medical interventions. This includes transitioners who are still all in with the ideology, and detransitioners who regret what they’ve done. Both these groups have plenty of heartbreaking stories of irreversible and ongoing medical issues. I’ve seen quite a lot of transitioners publically shame and ridicule those courageous detransitioners brave enough to come out and tell their story. These critics of detransitioners claim that everyone who reads the forms knows there are tons of dangerous side effects, and that if you make medical changes because you mistakenly thought you were the opposite sex, you are an idiot. Both these admissions are in the spirit of trying to keep the trans movements’ holy matrimony with the surgical and medical community alive and well. But their vitriolic attitude instead shines through, to let the community at large know that there are well-known risks, and that self diagnosis is an extremely flawed way to determine whether or not their gender dysphoria will be alleviated, and not actually worsened, as much evidence seems to clearly indicate, by medically transitioning.

The theory that a child is capable of diagnosing themselves … ‘i think I’m a boy, therefore I am a boy…’ has been disproven by detransitioners, telling their heartbreaking stories of regret at being ‘wrong’ when they thought they were in the ‘wrong’ body. Many advocates of trans surgery say who cares about the destroyed lives of such a small percentage, but I believe that one is too many, and that by creating non-evidence-based policies, you set a scary precedent, which will result in more and more damaged children…

Additionally, even if there are truly gender dysphoric children, who refer to the sex binary (in contradiction to what transtioners say they actually believe btw), and feel they are in the ‘wrong’ body, there is no evidence this treatment will cure their ailments. The only ‘long term’ studies I’ve seen on any significant scale of number are only as far as three months out and allegedly only patients of a particular clinic! That does not qualify as long term or objective research! Additionally, even if the paperwork includes the ‘long term risks are unknown’ clause, children are not old enough to understand and consent to future risks! Many if not most have a personal fable of invincibility because their mind has not fully developed yet. Not to mention the fact that younger and younger children are ending up on the track to receive medical intervention when they are older, upon the heels of years of puberty blockers.

Has anyone watched the tv show, ‘i am Jazz?’ This child has been developing one medical issue after another, as the result of a vaginoplasty that was performed on him at 16 years old after having been on puberty blockers since preadolescence. As far as I know, at the time, he was the youngest person to receive this procedure. (I’m happy to refer to him as she if we were interacting on a personal level, but for informational purposes he is a he, while presenting as female)… Jazz’ mother now constantly nags and complains that Jazz is fat (possible endocrinal production issue brought on by puberty blockers) and not ‘dilating’ enough (I’ll let anyone look this one up for specific details, but it is a ghastly procedure involving inserting a device in the medically created ‘vagina,’ to keep the wound from healing. Noone can blame Jazz for not wanting to do this form of literal continued self sexual harm, literally keeping a wound open from a botched surgery! I cannot begin to imagine what all this is doing to Jazz’ psyche…it is terrible to see people letting this happen. I wish someone would help Jazz out of this terribly abusive situation.

Published by The Dogwalker

It was the spring of '68 when I was born. There were visible stars in the sky that night, or so I'm told... Some days, I ride my bicycle to the farmer's market, hang my clothes to dry, and sketch or play my guitar into the evening... Other days, I stay indoors, drink too much coffee, eat canned soup, and critique endless reruns of "Law and Order." (It's fun to wonder how all the suspects have such perfect memories as to their whereabouts, or why the longshoreman isn't curious enough to get out of the forklift when confronted by homicide detectives). Do you have friends? (I have come to be leery of dating anyone who has no friends. These people always seem to have some far-fetched conspiracy theory or weird aversion to sunlight...) Bonus points to those who... appreciate a good pun or will give a gratuitous chuckle:) can find humor in not only the absurd, but esp in the mundane :)

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  1. When my sister and I were younger kids we liked to play with dolls and toy house stuff on the few times a year we saw each other. We would both build house and school floor plans with bamboo sticks and the dolls would come over to each other’s houses for dinner or to play with dolls. Now we are wondering if we used to be gender fluid?!

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