The transgender ideology defies reality
by Marc Glendening, Conservative Home:
The decision by the Government, confirmed in the Queen’s Speech, to drop its intention to make ‘gender-conversion therapy’ illegal has, predictably, aroused outrage among those who subscribe to Politically Weaponised Transgenderism (PWT). Principally, Stonewall and its allies. It is utterly incredible to think that a supposedly Conservative government was even contemplating going down a road that would have prevented psychologists from advising their patients about potentially life-changing decisions.
PWT is taking New Left identity politics to a higher level of authoritarianism and denies metaphysical reality. Identitarianism based on physical characteristics such as sex and ethnicity is now being supplemented by imagined states of personal being (if only for certain favoured groups of people).
It opens the door potentially to the provision of special privileges for people who perceive themselves in all kinds of fantastical, existence-defying ways: as tall when they are short, black-skinned when white, thin when fat, young when old, maybe even as members of other species entirely. This extension of the scope of identity politics potentially opens up a rich new seam of support for the contemporary centre-left.
PWT represents a desire to restrict our right to challenge the contemporary left’s portrayal of human existence, and to dictate how we must interact with our fellow citizens. This is why it needs to be intellectually challenged head-on.
Together with its broader umbrella ideology, it is nothing less than a quest for epistemological domination. It wants individuals to sacrifice both their capacity to objectively analyse the material world and to express themselves freely in accordance with that.
Nancy Kelley, Stonewall’s Chief Executive, has compared gender-critical views to anti-Semitism and has said they should be subject to legal intervention. Transgender-sceptics are routinely vilified for their alleged ‘hate’ speech and culture-cancelled. They often find themselves placed on police Non Crime Hate Incident databases where the police are not confident of obtaining prosecution.
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