My kids are fully grown and nearly in their thirties. The oldest escaped the Pokemon craze of the late 90’s because she had more important things on her mind as a teenage girl, but the younger two were avid players and I confess to feeding their habits. I would play the game with them and help them buy their decks and other gamepieces. I took them to the gamerooms on Saturdays to they could play with their peers.
I even learned most of the 150 different Pokemon and quizzed with them on their strengths and weaknesses, how many HP it took to capture them. I would watch the cartoon show with them, and relate to Brock who was a good trainer but had a hard time relating to the girls he wanted so badly to date. I even went to the first Pokemon, taking my kids and nephew to see it. Even though it was largely a promo for the three Legendary Pokemon (Arcticuno, Zapdos, and Moltres,) I had fun watching the movie with them. They were learning about loyalty, respect for your pets, and responsibility (except for Ash’s mom letting a 12 year old boy wander around whatever country they were in with no money for food or even a backpack with a change of clothes.)
I stopped going along with it when they started playing the games electronically on Nintendo handhelds, because I’ve never been a video game player due to a hand-eye coordination issue that makes me a terrible player. Later, I would occasionally watch after a girlfriend’s son while she was working. He was also going through a phase of Pokemon, but by then there were well over 300 of the things. He would quiz me, but my heart just wasn’t in it and I had lost the will memorize them. That didn’t stop him from talking about them incessantly, and we would even play the actual game together.
He’s an adult now, too, and a numismatist. The last time I saw him he was 16 and showed me his collection. I am fairly certain that his passion for collecting was developed by his obsession with Pokemon. “1914-D Lincoln Wheat, I choose you!”
There are multiple gender identities at the gender store for people to pick and choose from if they have been at this long enough. Not feeling satisfied to claim the gender identity of the other sex, they can now page through the list on the internet for the characteristics that they deem to fit best with their innermost selves and experiences of gender. Rather than go through all of the list, I want to share a link to a site lists the genders. I am not sure what organization is the official repositor and umpire of all the genders, but I am quite sure there must be a regulatory body somewhere that evaluates proposed genders to determine that they are valid and should be recorded and honored and that the pronouns are unique to that gender and there are no duplications to confuse the rest of us. I would hate to misgender a ‘xir’ when their gender really is ‘zir,’ (and it’s up to me to keep track even if they are genderfluid.)
This article is written by an MD, so it must be a thoroughly researched piece and trustworthy. It’s on “medicine.net.” Seriously, though, it’s hard to take this, um, seriously.
Blurgender: Also called gender fuss, blurgender means having more than one gender identities that blur into each other so that no particular type of gender identity is clear.
Boyflux: The person identifies themselves as male, but they experience varying degrees of male identity. This may range from feeling agender to completely male.
Burstgender: Frequent bursts of intense feelings quickly move to the initial calm stage.
Caelgender: This gender identity shares the qualities or aesthetics of outer space.
Cassgender: It is associated with the feelings of considering the gender irrelevant or unimportant.
Cassflux: There is a fluctuating intensity of irrelevance toward gender.
Cavusgender: The person feels close to one gender when depressed and to another when not depressed.
Cendgender: The gender identity changes from one gender to its opposite.
Ceterogender: It is a nonbinary gender where the person has a specific masculine, feminine or neutral feelings.
Ceterofluid: Although the person is a ceterogender, their identity keeps fluctuating between different genders.
Cisgender: Being closely related to the gender assigned at birth during the entire life.
Cloudgender: The person’s gender cannot be comprehended or understood due to depersonalization and derealization disorder.
With this sort of listing available on the internet available easily on the internet by searching for genders, I think anyone can see how the barely perceptible differences between some of these genders leads to self-diagnosis on the order of palmistry. But if you look at something like “cloudgender” it’s easy to work out that there is a game being played here.
My young friend, now the numismatist, would draw his own characters and name them to create his own games. The pictures of the characters didn’t matter as much the descriptions he made up, but they were much more coherent and differentiated than on this list. And even on this list, the writer must have worn out of patience in compilation, because it’s alphabetical and while there is a great bunching on the early letters, the list runs out of steam and rushes to a finish. The last on the list starts with “O.”
Genderfluid: The person does not consistently adhere to one fixed gender and may have many genders.
Genderfuzz: More than one gender is blurred together.
Genderflux: The gender fluctuates in intensity.
Genderpuck: The person resists to fit in societal norms concerning genders.
Genderqueer: The individual blurs the preconceived boundaries of gender in relation to the gender binary or having just one gender type.
Gender witched: The person is inclined toward the notion of having one gender but does not know which.
Girlflux: The individual identifies themselves as a female but with varying intensities of female identities.
Healgender: A gender identity that gives the person peace, calm, and positivity.
Mirrorgender: Changing one's gender type based on the people surrounding.
Omnigender: Having or experiencing all genders.
One of the beauties of the tarot is that the cards can tell us anything that we want to hear about ourselves. Anyone can find themselves in this list and come to the conclusion that it describes their inner gender feeling, and then rush to their favorite Discord server to demand everyone’s attention and then “come out” as Genderfuzz, or Genderqueer, or perhaps Genderzelig. All their cohort will lovebomb them for being so brave, and later one of them will consult the list and “come out” as another gender.
Kids learn to separate their Pokemon characters as fantasy during their stages in development, but I often wonder if the carryover of playing such RPG’s and retaining characters hasn’t set them up for the multiplicity of genders. Taking on a role often includes identifying with that character in other situations. I recall at nine choosing to dressup as U.S. Grant for the President’s Day party in grade three. For a year or two, my interest spiked any time I read or heard his name. I identified with him easily as someone who had helped win the Civil War as a general, even though he was a lousy president later. (According to many historians, he was not equipped for politics and chose corrupt advisers.)1
I don’t find it to be a stretch for developing minds, even teens, to identify with genders in this way, but this really helps to put the lie to transgender identities, doesn’t it? All of our lives we retains a certain amount of malleability in our personalities, and this helps us adapt to a changing social milieu. It’s even more fluid in children and teens and if they find an article like this one that looks official and even has a byline with and “MD” author and a medical reviewer who is also an MD, they can easily get taken in and think this is a list of descriptions of gender identities that is reliably reflective of reality.
And for their parents, well here’s some advice that would have given Piaget a nauseous stomach. He would have thrown up in his mouth a little bit to read:
At what age does a child understand gender identity?
Your child may have questions about gender identity at any stage of life:
Age 2 to 3: Children know the difference between a boy and a girl at this age. They may start to see themselves as either a girl or a boy regardless of their sexual anatomy. They may even assume other genders, which are still normal and healthy.
Age 4 to 5: At this age, your child understands their gender identity. However, the older they grow, the more conscious they become of gender roles, expectations, and stereotypes. For example, they believe that certain toys or clothes are only for boys or girls. At this age, your child may start to express their gender more confidently, like preferring to wear dresses every day or refusing to wear dresses at all.
Age 6 to 7: Children are more confident about themselves and their gender identity and are less afraid of expressing their gender because they know everyone sees them as girls or boys. However, children who see themselves as different from their assigned sex at birth may experience social anxiety and distress when they realize they can't fit in either category.
Eight years and above: Some children will experience a gender crisis at this age where they begin to feel that they are different from the person they were identified to be at birth. During preteen or teenage years, your child may start to question their gender.
I’ll make it easier, folx. It’s all made up.
Feel free to unpack any of the above genders. Skeptics, why are you going along with this?
I got called out on this by peers who were sick of it. It was embarrassing but a good thing that I was shaken from such a passion before it consumed me and I could no longer tell where I ended and Grant began.
What I want to know is when and by whom it was decided that an 4-to-5-year-old "not wanting to wear dresses" is about gender expression, rather than, for example, about wanting to wear clothing that is more suited to tree-climbing, bike-riding, and puddle-jumping? Or are the genderists really trying to say that a desire for tree-climbing, bike-riding, and puddle-jumping is a signal of masculinity?
What I want to know is when and by whom it was decided that an 4-to-5-year-old "not wanting to wear dresses" is about gender expression, rather than, for example, about wanting to wear clothing that is more suited to tree-climbing, bike-riding, and puddle-jumping? Or are the genderists really trying to say that a desire for tree-climbing, bike-riding, and puddle-jumping is a signal of masculinity?