Some say sex and gender are different.
They say gender is a construct and a spectrum, and claim that people can ‘identify as’ any gender they like. Yet for most of history, sex and gender have been synonymous, and this new idea has started to cause confusion. What has changed?
People are either male or female, which are two sexes. Yes, behavioral constructs have developed that are traits commonly associated with either one sex or the other. People of either sex can exhibit the behavioral traits of the other; it is possible to call a man feminine or a woman masculine. This is quite natural, because we are all born from both a male and a female and can exhibit both physical and behavioral traits from both parents. Does sharing in these masculine-feminine traits give us the ability to identify as the sex we were not born as? No.
There is absolutely no reason to regard someone as a sex they are not based on behavioral, and in some cases physical, observations. Sex is deeply physiological, leading to the creation of sexual organs and other bodily variances. There is no reason to mutilate and chemically interfere with a person’s natural development as a ‘solution’ to appease ‘confusion.’ Those who claim to feel relief from such procedures are simply being pushed further into delusions by having those delusions affirmed. There is no possible way to change a person’s sex. Making attempts to by unnaturally interfering with a person’s hormonal constitution is an abuse of their natural maturation and physical development.
“Be your true self,” the trans community cries, while making every effort to openly present themselves as the opposite sex they were born as. If you’re to be your true self, you would avoid any attempt at change, yet the very prefix ‘trans’ means just that—change. This is absolute delusion and unhealthy behaviour.
There is great merit in accepting people for who they are and how they choose to present themselves, but encouraging and accepting this sort of delusional behaviour is unhealthy for society. Some of the ‘gender identities’ may seem to fit better under ‘personality types’ which are based on mental make-up and behaviour. Though however much our behaviour may stray from the perceived norms associated with our sex, they will never fully define our sex. Physiology defines sex, and part of that physiology is in the brain. Different hormones cause a natural schism in some behaviours based on sex, but behaviours alone, and that includes “identifying as” something, will never completely define a person’s sex.
The recent tendency for this delusional behaviour to be accepted, now leading to the developmental interference of children, needs to be seriously addressed. It needs to be confronted in our communities, healthcare systems, mental health institutions and societies in all forms. There is good reason it was regarded as mental illness in the past and still should be. Though some past attempts as treatments have been horrid and regrettably harmful, there are still solutions that many have found helpful. There are also many coming out to decry modern attempts at solutions that simply give in to the delusional behaviour as harmful. Why has this happened? We need to fix it for our society to move forward, not give in to it.
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