These are the things that skeptics should be looking at. “Believing the Children” didn’t work out so well for us during the Satanic Panic, did it? The skeptics who examined that and sussed out the problem of just taking children at their word are taking a pass on an issue that will, again, destroy countless lives. Like this boy’s:
It’s incredibly sexist and regressive to think that a child’s inner being is defined by social expectations of what a boy or a girl should want to play with. How does he know so certainly that he’s really a girl without social forces telling him that girl’s like pink and boys like blue.
We’ve always had children who don’t comply with the norms, and they’ve been bullied and called fags, or dykes, or pussies, or tomboys. They aren’t beat up because they are “Trans,” they are beat up because they don’t comply with the norms. And now, the way they are being treated is to conform to the norms by being made to believe that they are the other sex’s “gender identity.”
What needs to be done is to fight the expectation that girls and boys be confined to sets of toys determined by their sex. What we need to do is support and protect kids who express universal desires to do and see and have experiences that for odd reasons have been segregated by sex, and spread the word that sex should not be a limiting factor in life. We should not be telling them they are “born in the wrong body,” and our skeptics need to be looking into this. They know it’s bullshit, 1and need to be held to account.
Gender Identity is like Free Will. If it’s contra causal, it’s not supported by science and should not be the basis of a sexist society.
Penn and Teller are very persuasive. They know how to tell a good story, but like Michaal Shermer, they are influenced by their perspectives. As with all things, you must be careful to note when their libertarianism is influencing their presentation, and look into any subject they present with care and logic. We are all creatures of our own circumstance and perspective has a factor in shaping our reality. It shapes mine, so if I make a claim on anything it’s a good idea to check it out.
The same talking points we used as LGB people to demand that we are who we are in spite of social norms have been misappropriated by the TQA+P to insist that social norms are the sole metric for determining they need their identity-affirming mutilations. Fine, if you are an adult and pay for it yourself, go right ahead.
A word to the TRA's and their INCEL-Thirst-quenchers: Stay away from LGB, stay away from children, stay away from tax and linguistic arbitration! No matter how far in you tuck your little skin pouches, boys, is still taste the same and smells like BUTT and Lesbians do not want it! Leave your victimhood BS in Nazi Germany or in fundamental communism and let the rest of the world move forward! Thanks, K, bai!
When I posted this to Twitter, someone replied that Petras is not a "Kid."' But he was when he was swept up in a belief that he was a girl. He says he "transitioned" at 16, and that's an age when we don't even allow teens to get tattoos or body piercings in most U.S. states.
I've met too many detransitioners to think that this is a valid way to approach gender.