How the transgender ideology promotes stereotypes

Sep 5, 2018 by

by Ann Farmer, MercatorNet:

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy guidelines say that it “is important not to assume being a woman necessarily involves being able to bear children, or having XX sex chromosomes, or breasts”.

According to the guidance, “being a woman in a British cultural context often means adhering to social norms of femininity, such as being nurturing, caring, social, emotional, vulnerable, and concerned with appearance”, although “in some northern working-class contexts, femininity is associated with strength and aggression”. Women “on the autistic/aspergic/ADHD spectra … may struggle to express emotions, or with social situations.” They are regarded as “exceptions to the standard definition”.

They have stopped short of advising that “women do have penises”. But Professor Kathleen Stock of the University of Sussex, who was described as a transphobe by the university student union after arguing against allowing self-defined trans women into women’s spaces, described the guidance as “terrible, internally incoherent metaphysics”. The guidance was later changed to remove references to “northern women”. But significantly, references to autism and other men’s and women’s attributes remained – even though a high proportion of those on the autistic spectrum report feelings of gender confusion.

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