Are we all ‘omnigender’ now?

Jul 26, 2016 by

by Sharon James, affinity.org:

Introduction: the deconstruction of sexual distinctions.
An elite women’s college in America, Wellesley College, recently clarified its admissions policy. They will admit (biological) men who claim to be women.  They will not admit (biological) women who claim to be men.
The assumption is that objective physical reality (biological sex) is irrelevant. ‘Gender’ is all in the mind. We can define ourselves. The campaign to recognise the ‘right’ to ‘change gend er’ is not just about creating choice for some. It is destroying our shared understanding of what ‘man’ means and what ‘woman’ means. Using gendered language (he/she; men/women) is regarded by some activists as ‘hate speech’, wrongfully imprisoning people in one of two categories. Just as some radical feminists claim that sexist language, or even using generic language, is an ‘act of violence’, some say that they feel violated by gendered language. There have been calls for the creation of a ‘transphobic’ hate crime.
To understand where this thinking has come from, we need, firstly, to understand the current worldview of ‘expressive individualism’ (or total personal freedom). Secondly, to consider the rapid acceptance of ‘queer theory’. Thirdly, to underst and how health professionals and the law have accommodated this shift in thinking. And fourthly we will point to a biblical response.

See also: Gender is not a spectrum, by Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, aeon.co

 

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