The Pushback against Leftism

You say you felt your post was topical. I feel the real reason it was posted was because it makes the "right" look stupid. I don't care if the "right" look stupid because between you and me they are stupid, but so are the left, so when I see that tribalism being introduced here I'm going to call it out because it wasn't posted for it's educational content, it was posted for it's humor which is not relevant to any serious discussion.

Are you suggesting that the tweet has serious merit? Or is it just some cheap joke doing the rounds in your Twitter circles? We can probably agree that this question is merely rhetorical.

The type of question asked is indicative of a certain type of person who claims they are leftwing because they support gender identity politics.

I don't believe anything of the sort; for me left/right involves the struggle for a more equitable distribution of resources in society, as opposed to for instance the current owners of Amazon, Google and so on. An outgrowth of that struggle for resources once involved the struggle for reproductive rights, sexual freedom and dignity more generally.

Today no-one in their right mind would suggest that Varadkar is leftwing because he supports gay rights (being gay himself), but there was a time in the past when being openly gay would have marked you out as leftwing, while rightwing gays stayed in the closet.

Today though there is a version of rightwing that puts itself forward as being leftwing - and one of their markers is precisely pushing the transgender agenda. It is certainly a great distraction at a time when rents have become very difficult to pay and buying a house is beyond the means of the many. In fact, it is today's version of counting the number of angels on the head of a pin.

Now someone is going to come along and make the erroneous claim that I am anti transgender people. Yet another distraction.

IDK what else to tell you but you are wrong, I am the author of the post, I know the real reason why it was posted: the issue of child indoctrination in the right's 'pushback against leftism'. You're welcome to pound sand about it.

So the humor element was not evident to you?

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, it's been called.

We were talking about xx and xy chromosomes proving the rule that there are only two sexes - the various exception disprove this theory out of hand (even ignoring for the fact that numerous other chromosome play a role in sexual identity).

But the very existence of transgender people requires science to classify and describe that reality - for the same reason that science cannot tolerate exceptions to its system of classification - it must attempt to explain all known phenomena.

No one denied that the vast majority of people fall easily into those two catagories - but it is an inadequate scientific model all the same.

The alternative is to deny that intersex and transgender people can exist - which I hope you will acknowledge is a ludicrous position to take.

Its not the norm to be intersex - but it has to be part of the model.

As for transgender people - they represent roughly 0.5% of all humans - not an insignificant number at all.

I have no issue with stating that sex is male-female (with very rare exceptions) and most peoples gender conforms to their sex. What is objectionable is to state that this is a rule that cannot be broken. Thats is the basis of most right leaning transphobics arguments.

It wont be engaged with for a few days and the poster will come back posting and pretending blatant lies were not corrected and continue with said lies.