The Advance of Gender Ideology in Europe
By Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism.
Europe recently is giving signs of pushback against gender ideology and its coercive policies, as gender transitioning of minors has been banned in England, and caution is evident elsewhere. Nevertheless, the United Kingdom faces the threat of a “conversion therapy” ban, essentially prohibiting religious activity against LGBT behavior, as was reviewed in an earlier article, while the alarming speed with which gender activists have seized the overculture is just as evident in even the reputedly socially conservative nations of Poland, Hungary, and Italy as in America and the U.K.
This was discussed by Jay Richards, Director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation and a panel of European experts involved in the conflict with gender ideology there on February 27.
Richards explained that gender ideology rejects the concept of biological sex (which is really to reject sex per se) on the grounds that it does not “capture human reality and human experience, but rather if we want to understand human beings in all of their variety and diversity, it’s much better to think in terms of an entirely internal, subjective psychological state called a ‘gender identity,’” This he said “is an internal sense of gender.” Of course this is “circular,” but “that’s the best we can do.” Sex, according to gender ideology is only a set of biases associated with certain body parts, “but it’s an assignment … it’s not the real thing.” But the “real thing” is really subjective. To state the obvious, society cannot be based on subjectivity, but that’s exactly what gender ideology proposes. The ideology simply attempts to force people to regard an individual’s subjectivism as objective reality. Thus under our current “medical regime,” it becomes reasonable to transform an individual’s surroundings and even body to conform to their psychological state.
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