Transphobia is a False Premise
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
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Phobia is an irrational fear of something. A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous.
from Greek phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object of fear or terror," originally "flight"
In this case, transgender people
Redefinition is “fear OR HATRED” of transgender people
Hatred not a part of other phobias
Other phobias are identified by the phobic individual, with TRANSPHOBIA, it is identified by someone else.
This is essentially a made up definition to get you to ignore your concerns about gender ideology and what it means for a loved one to decide that they are transgender. People who say they are transgender are just like everyone else and just as deserving of love and respect as anyone else, but their preoccupation with gender ideology can eclipse other aspects of their identity, and often a part of their ideology includes demanding that those around them reflect their gender fixation back to them in a particular way. I want to encourage you to reject that framework. Going along with the gender framework is not helpful for your loved one, who is essentially at war with his or her body and reproductive system. Remaining firmly grounded in truth and focused on other aspects of the individual and your relationship with them is more compassionate because it does not encourage them in their self-rejection.
If you do this, however, you will be called a transphobe. In this video I go over some of the ways this term is being used and get into some of the logical distortions and inconsistencies in the gender framework. _____________________________________________________________________
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Hey Leslie. I have no fear or hatred of Transgender people. I DO have strong concerns about what the Trans movement (and many other recent movements) are doing to us as a society. Issue by issue, it seems we are becoming more divided all the time. Thanks for posting this one!
There wouldn't BE a trans movement if trans people weren't being beaten and murdered and having laws passed to criminalize their existence. Trans people aren't creating division, politicians are. They are trying to exploit people's fears to distract from REAL issues. Show me an official who starts railing against "transgender ideology" and I'll show you somebody with a scandal they're trying to hide.
If a guy gets the notion that he wants to put food in his ear instead of in his mouth, and I say, "That's insane; it's going to lead to medical problems," it's not because I fear or hate him.
But the trans cult is doing worse than that - they're doing the equivalent of forcing us all to pretend that the ear is a legitimate 'mouth', or even that it's no different from a mouth.
Exactly. Funny how you never hear about the downside of anal sex: high occurrence of colon cancer and fecal incontinence. The colon is not a sex organ.
And if you decide you don’t want to date such a guy, that’s not because you fear him (although that would be valid too,) it would be because we all have the freedom of choice to decide who does and does not get to be in our romantic lives.
@@LadyCaroline123Yeah I never understood why people like that anyway. It’s nasty to me same with blow jobs.
Also, if accused of transphobia, the best response is “that’s not how I identify.”
That's actually a great response! Of course, woke ideology is completely incoherent, inconsistent, & hypocritical. You can identify as the opposite sex, but not another ethnicity. You can identify as an animal, but not as a fat person. They enforce reality when it suits them & disregard reality when it doesn't. A white person wearing blackface is offensive, but a man wearing womanface is celebrated!
There's a verbal checkmate
facepalming right now
youd get laughed at if you actually said that to someone
@@lucywucyyy Hey man, it's just an observation. Assign what you will to it.
@@SherKhaal i love how you guys just assume everyone who disagrees with you is automatically a transgirl lol
god you people need to go outside
Thank you for voicing this perspective. Believing that gender is binary doesn't make me "phobic" of anything.
Just out of touch,with current medical study and academia.Your Transmisia can remain intact, but you should at least communicate in a way conforming to the modern consensus on sex,simply by saying sex is on a bi model distribution.
#SexNotGender
@@jan9562 gosh your right they don’t even have the current discourse down. Spectrum for sure.Ty
@@Preciouspink what modern consensus? You mean the pseudoscientific BS people like you keep trying to push?
Please, take a hike. And trust me, when I start hating you will know.
Biological sex = reality
The problem with lobby groups is that once they've achieved whatever they set out to achieve, they become redundant.Rather than allow that to happen, they invent new causes to justify thrir existence.
They're professional moaners. They're terrified of running out of things to moan about.
For many in The Movement (whatever the movement is), it's the best job they'll ever have.
Like feminism. Gender gap. There is none.
That is exactly what happened to stonewall in the uk after gay marriage
If you call everyone who disagrees transphobic then the word becomes meaningless
No, it's just that a lot of people are transphobic. Being able to identify that a large group of people exhibit bigoted views actually holds meaning because it suggests that bigotry is an epidemic that many people fall into obvious or subtle transphobic behaviors.
I did not consent to be subject to this insanity.
A.k.a being held emotionally hostage
The world, mercifully, does not depend on your approval.
Yep transphobia/transmisia is still alive unfortunately.
I'll often retort with "heterophobe."
That often evokes a brain glitch in real time. 🐿
They're reality-phobic.
They are literally hetero-phobes. If you read some queer theory the whole stated aim is to destroy normality.
Was about to say the same thing @@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559
Considering there is actual hatred of hetrosexual relationships. this is a factual thing.
@@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559 you're delusion-phobic! 😑
The whole situation just reveals the shocking lack of ability and willingness to think clearly in the general population.
We're sheep. Most people suppress their concerns because they know that if they don't they could end up ostracised by the 'tribe', and that terrifies them, because they equate it with death.
But even before the internet and cancel culture there was a silencing of people who don’t believe homosexuality is normal. The 90’s was a propaganda machine to make homosexuality look good and the Christian look mean and evil. Look at the mess we’re in now because people were too afraid to speak out.
Liberal cowardice is the main issue.
We've devolved into having intelligent discourse over unintelligible topics where instead of debating to prove a point we are put on the defensive to remain sane and connected to reality.
I hear Peter Boghossian saying similar. Instead of having fruitful intellectual conversations, we’re reduced to discussing absolute idiotic nonsense in a scholastic way. We’re obviously subject to a massive subversive psyop, like Yuri Bezmenov described.
From the rhetorical standpoint, it's a multi-part fallacious argument to call the entirety of negative views on something "a phobia". Let's break it down.
1. It's an appeal to emotion. A type of direct or indirect accusation of acting under the influence of emotions perceived as weakness. (Irrational) fear (of the unfamiliar) is nearly universally seen as weak, primitive, regressive, opposite to educated and modern.
2. It's a mind-reading fallacy. A type of action attribution error that implies the only possible cause for certain behavior and dismisses any other reasons.
3. Together, they form a basis for a strawman fallacy that effectively replaces the actual opponent's position with something easy to refute and dismiss.
Nobody should ever perceive this pile of rhetorical tricks as credible, so it must be rejected and retaliated against by openly and publicly deconstructing this fallacy.
Pedantry doesn’t prevent you from being stupid. It’s a label meant to connote irrational rejection of something, in the case of social phenomena usually a group of people. It’s not literally an attribution of fear, and it’s not a straw man, because it’s not misrepresentation of an argument.
@@matthewcaldwell8100 Using a word that has a specific meaning for anything other than that has a known effect of lending the original meaning to the new one. So, it is an insult, regardless of the intent. Even if we assume that broadening the meaning is "legal", you still do acknowledge the connotation of irrationality. That is still an insult and a strawman. If you think that it can only be irrational, it raises the question of who's stupid here.
@@sciloj Insults are not informal logical fallacies. They are insults. And a label is not an argument. You can disagree that people who criticize trans people are inherently transphobic, but dismissing outright the existence of the attitude the term denotes is a pretty glib maneuver, especially given how many people make a principle out of their rejection of trans people’s existence and any social or political acknowledgment it warrants.
No, what you don’t like is having a pejorative applied where you think it shouldn’t belong, and you’re willing to play debate lord over semantic and logical distinctions that you don’t understand well enough to consistently apply.
Pejorative intent is clear with the use of this word.
Correct. It is a pejorative. What’s your point?
@@matthewcaldwell8100 My statement clarifies the gist of her point. But that is obvious, isn't it. So the question was rhetorical, empty, and petty. Do better.
@@colinellicott9737 You and she are saying it's a pejorative as if it's some closely guarded secret. It's not.
@@matthewcaldwell8100 So you are out here quibbling with our agreed perspective on the use of a word, that you also agree with. Check yourself dude, and step off.
Homophobia, islamophobia, xenophobia depend on the same political manipulation of language. None of us who are for _common sense realism_ should use any of these.
Yes, exactly.
Currently, antisemitism is the biggest faux moral panic in mainstream media. Just because people don't support a particular country doesn't mean they're hateful towards an entire group. No country is entitled to support.
Exactly.
Avoid the phobias and the isims
The Great Noticing is upon us.
What a gifted orator you are. I love the balance of acknowledging the humanity of the individual while standing firm in your values. It’s like the opposite of codependency, I think.
Thanks very much 🙏
Yes, the opposite of codependency- respectfully taking responsibility for one's own actions and speech, and not taking responsibility for the others'.
It's interesting, the people who use this kind of terminology (transphobia) tend move the goalpost regarding what words mean to suit their own truth. This is one of the ways that I know this ideology is false, and bears no resemblance to the truth.
Thanks for this.
About classification, gender ideologues are in a bind. If being trans is a mental disorder, then trans women are not women; they are men who prefer to live as women. If, as some suggest, trans is a normal human variant, then why are blockers and hormones and surgery covered by health insurance? It's quite natural for my hair to go gray, as it most certainly is, so Aetna's not springing for the cost of having it colored. (I'm quite dysphoric about it!) So trans activists have charted a course right between Scylla and Charybdis.
Bullies are good at name calling and pretty much nothing else. The labels are a distraction. Ignore and keep talking about substance. I think the labels are starting to lose their power just like the dollar and for the same reason, inflation. When everyone is a transfob, nobody is.
Exactly. 'Transphobic' is now a badge of honour, because the 'gender-bender mob' applies it to those who are brave and sensible enough to call their beliefs exactly what they are - completely non-sensical.
Not everyone is. You clearly are.
"Phobia" a tactic to dismiss anyone who disagrees, to avoid considering their ideas. A discussion-stopper. A thought-stopper.
Your ideas are stupid enough to be easily debunked. Labels aren’t necessary.
There is a big difference between being phobic vs just super annoyed by something that just keeps being rubbed in your face.
That’s some nerve they demand to be dated all tell others it’s a copp out ? Insane . Dating is not owned . Can you imagine the backlash if a man said this about getting turned down .
That is already what is happening, every "trans woman" is an adult male, thus every "trans woman" is a man (adult male).
It usually is a man saying it... 😕
They ARE MEN having tantrums about getting turned down! Transgender "lesbians" still intact call lesbians "transphobic" if they won't sleep with them.
The problem is that a lot of people exclude dating all trans due them being trans, because that's how bigotry worked always has. There's nothing wrong with having a genital preference but refusing to date any trans person because of their transness is wrong. Just how it's wrong to exclude dating asian people because they're asian. You're not forced to but it makes you look shallow and transphobic due to the silly reasoning.
I generally respond to such an accusation with, "There's no such thing as transphobia, just sane people stating the obvious."
We can't allow them to alter our language. Thank you for this, Leslie.
"Transphobic" is not even a word. What do I have an irrational fear of here? "Trans" means convert. So I have an irrational fear of converting? Makes zero sense. That side of the spectrum makes up words in order to block the conversation. That side of the spectrum makes up words in order to manufacture new victimhood.
Too bad they have the power to do it and do it all the time. They have literally caused the dictionary to be altered like five times in the last ten years. I don't like it, but they can and do.
@@phillip53 But we do not have to speak their language, nor accept their definitions.
Thank you! 🙏
Their attempts are Orwellian. Even the slang they use "unfunny, ungood, big mad" is reminiscent of Orwell's double speak "double plus ungood"
Their name calling is a tactic .
The tactic is simple . Its simply "label to disable".
Another aspect is that because phobia implies irrationality, any legitimate discrimination will be challenged or negated. For example, not allowing men into women's prisons is not an irrational fear, it is rational discrimination based on lived experience of reality.
Phobia is a clever tactic. The portmanteau term is disingenuous. Consider arachnophobia. We RATIONALLY fear spiders and are evolved to do so. Same as fear of heights or snakes. Homophobia is an elastic term. A catch all. It’s like a 🎚️dial. If two men kiss during a movie, a straight man watching might look away or switch off in disgust. That could be labelled homophobic. Learning that his urologist is gay could cause a straight man discomfort. He may have no malice, just unease. The polarity is the plot/ploy. The other end of the homophobia spectrum is in the definition. It speaks of prejudice, discrimination all the way up to VIOLENCE”. The statement “homophobia will not be tolerated@ sounds reasonable. Test is until you find that it includes an failure of one’s obligation to express agreement or endorsement with homosexuality.
Phobia can also be pathologized. If yo’re not on board, you have a mental condition and need treatment or correction. A sickness or disorder!! They want to characterise it like hysteria.
SJWs want to criminalized the man who's uncomfortable seeing a guy urologist and the woman who doesn't want her gynecologist to be a man imitating a woman.
Break the boundaries by force and legalized coercion. Make people doubt themselves and reality. Break them so they can't say no.
Most gay people are turned off, if not actively repulsed, by the idea of heterosexual sex. Which makes all kinds of sense, actually. Does that make them heterophobic?
Hi Leslie. On Phobia. We hear also the term of course, homophobia... but those that sling the term do so maliciously. As if it is a bad thing to have a phobia? Do we fault people for their fears or help them cope? My perspective is this, be it for real, should we not have empathy for those that have such a serious issue (implied sarcasm)? Imagine how cruel it would be considered if we locked someone with claustrophobia into a closet. Would we make fun of them? We would condemn such action for sure. Or for someone with a fear of heights, to put them in a situation where that phobia kicks in... Pure cruelty. Do we belittle them? Why then is it okay to yell transphobic or homophobic with the intent to cause harm? Hypocrisy. And all said with sarcasm and clarity to the point. The oppressed are the oppressor once again.
I'd word it another way as I've written elsewhere: If other phobias garner sympathy because they have a specific meaning, but then the same word is slung shrilly as an epitaph, then they're actually using lying language in order to protect a lie.
Having a phobia that controls someone's behavior irrationally and unconditionally is objectively bad for that person. Because it causes suffering (and drives potentially dangerous actions or inaction) affecting that person. It might not be important enough for them, but it's still bad.
The other part you mentioned is true - people using "-phobia" as a pejorative break their own declared rules (that aren't meant to be followed by them to begin with). They want their opponents to appear weak and irrational. While in the case of their "pets" (protected groups including people with mental conditions) they use declared compassion and desire to help as a proof of higher moral ground.
@@kennorthunder2428 From the academics POV they would say that is intersectionality. Some things over lap that cannot do so without the persistence of hypocrisy, while other things that don't apply end up getting exaggerated.
@@sciloj A good point. What is missed is how people are used and abused me thinks. Those people that hear the word phobia and encode it one way for one circumstance only to encode it differently in others for gain, do so from peer programming.... they are being used in their collective translation matrix of DEI nonsense to reformat their minds into a conditioned response that they believe is going to alleviate suffering, but ends up only perpetuating it in other people.... so they are used and abused to spread oppression, declare defiance to the oppressor, and bathe in their personal victory over basically nothing at all. At the end of the day, they blame everyone for everything they didn't get accomplished, based on their own circular argument of repetition. Thanks for commenting.
@@sciloj A good point. What is missed is how people are used and abused me thinks. Those people that hear the word phobia and encode it one way for one circumstance only to encode it differently in others for gain, do so from peer programming.... they are being used in their collective translation matrix of DEI nonsense to reformat their minds into a conditioned response that they believe is going to alleviate suffering, but ends up only perpetuating it in other people.... so they are used and abused to spread oppression, declare defiance to the oppressor, and bathe in their personal victory over basically nothing at all. At the end of the day, they blame everyone for everything they didn't get accomplished, based on their own circular argument of repetition. Thanks for commenting.
These people are literally trying to say we don't have the right to choose the type of people we get into relationships with
You can, it's within your right to. The reasoning is the problem because not dating trans solely because their trans is transphobia. Just how it's ableist to not date someone because they're autistic. You can have a genital preference but excluding an entire group of people from the dating pool based on their identity is bigoted. It's your right to not date trans people but it'll just make you like a transphobe. Also some trans people don't get surgery, there's uterus transplantion, or trans people save their eggs or sperm for later. You can also adopt but if you want but if you really want a biological child then those are some ways trans people can do it.
@@deadsirius3531 nor bed, in the case of lesbians who don't wish to sleep with intact transgender lesbians. We are called transphobic, TERFs, extorted and shunned, told we need therapy, it's truly heinous.
Thank you, Leslie. The way you bend over backward to illuminate truth is wasted on those captured by this cult, but there are so many who haven't yet encountered it, and the message needs to be shared so they won't be hoodwinked by the doubletalk when they do.
The neurolinguistic trick of the appropriation of the words phobia and hate are clever.
Hate is then associated with the word ‘hatred’. Hate is considered the opposite of love.
Love is the word the lgbt use as their umbrella term for sex/sexual relationship.
Note that hate is a legal term. Eg ‘hate crime’. To persecute someone motivated by hate is not the same as persecuting them based on ‘hatred’. Hate crimes can only be committed against pre-identified/identifiable ‘protected characteristics’. It’s not illegal to hate people eg for their music taste or football team. You can be guilty of a hate crime without actually hating the alleged victim.
The trick is to switch language up so that any disagreement or criticism of eg LGBT is reported as ‘hating’ on or ‘hatred towards’… all with the intention of presenting this as ‘hate crime’, as those fit serious stringent punishment.
It isn't my responsibility to validate another's delusions.
I don't trip over anything. If they have a problem being referred to as the sex they were born as, that's their problem, not mind.
Great talk. It's an Orwellian manipulation tactic, and as you noted they only apply it to whatever they want everyone to accept.
Another possible example: alcoholism. One can say alcoholism is bad, unhealthy, harms self and others, etc, without "hating" or having an "irrational fear" of alcoholics. People have long ridiculed the drunk with slurred speech and wobbly on his feet, but that too is without hate or fear. And likewise an alcoholic is undesirable to be around. Again, not out of hate or fear. And we can still care about the alcoholic and even have a relationship with him, as many do, while at the same time recognizing and noting the serious problems.
BTW, before "transphobia" there was "homophobia" to refer to anyone who had any issues with same-sex relationships or state sanctioned marriage. Whatever one might think of it, it was a tactic to dismiss (rather than dialog with) anyone who challenged it, same as "transphobia" today.
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It’s so weird to me that we now have to explain and defend only wanting to have romantic relationships with people who haven’t had surgery to make them to vaguely look like a bad facsimile of the opposite sex than what nature made them. Honestly, if you can’t take no for an answer and you want to manipulate and talk people into dating you, then maybe rethink your life choices.
Nah have a well minded person make the choice for em.
Look up Jen Bilek and her research on the money behind this movement.
@goodgrief888 ... Well said. There are a number of reasons why we are given no ability to logic our way through all this. The first being is that the gender ideologue interprets humans as merely puzzle pieces, that are each of equal shape and size. We were simply assembled in such a way that whomever was present when brought into this world, flipped a coin and "assigned" male or female. This is why those who feel this way, see no issue with sports / space [sharing], as an issue made up by those who hate them. So long as this is the framework, from which we are expected to address it, there is no way to engage in productive dialog. Since the very foundation of what we are discussing is completely different, it is simply not possible to arrive at any agreement on this issue at all.
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The identical issue guides the issue of "A", as well. Unless we can all speak from the same definition, it is literally impossible to resolve or reach a compromise we can all agree upon. Getting back to the topic at hand, the issue of sexual attraction goes WELL beyond the physical body of that person and we all know this. However, those who are ideologically driven to the gender affirming side of this issue, cannot and will not acknowledge such distinction, as it fundamentally undermines their entire position. Beyond any of the above, is critical thinking is absolutely critical to engage in comprehension of these issues and that is something long lost in the public "education" system.
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Over the span of 3+ full generations, we have seen that children are no longer being taught _how_ to think but rather _what_ to think. So long as this is barrier exists, we cannot converse our way to resolution of these issues.
@@valdivia1234567 let me guess… pharma companies?
@@NinjaKittyBonks Well it’s funny, because a few years ago I felt no fear or hate of these people. Maybe some pity. But not fear and hate. But the more they try to use their exalted and above reproach positions that society has handed to them, (while crying victimhood) to pathologize normalcy, the more I *am* actually starting to feel hate and fear towards them as a group. And towards the society that has given them carte blanch to behave as grotesquely as they want to, while at the same time telling us normies that we are all horrible people for not going along with it. This is where most people draw the line, I believe. Ones own personal sexuality. I would have previously thought they’d draw the line at children being sacrificed to this cause, but I was wrong about that.
Sometimes I embrace the term this way, “Yes, I fear what this belief system is doing to women and children.”
And they'll reply that 'there's nothing to fear about the erosion of safeguards against the sexual assault of females or the mutilation of children', and shockingly, they'll think they're rational for saying that.
I fear what this is doing to everyone, men are not safe. Gender ideology is dangerous to humanity
That is a rational fear. Not an irrational one.
Do you fear what sports and churches do to children? because sexual abuse is by far the most prevalent in those contexts. Harm done by heterosexual cisgender men. But I'm sure you also protest that stuff.
@@thomsoap Yes I do. What happened to kids via adults covering up for Catholic priests was absolutely horrific. Once again adults now (just as they did then) are looking the other way and not protecting children from this either.
Thank you for the rational, calm presentation.
The notion of gender assignment is a notion that should never have been swallowed.
Pretty sure the term came from how doctors dealt with intersex people born with ambiguous genitalia. Before genetic testing was available, doctors had to "assign" a sex based on the available--and ambiguous--evidence. That term should now be obsolete, but it was appropriated because it's useful to the ideology. Totally inaccurate and frankly stupid, but useful.
Yes, this is what we've been saying... and then they call us bigots. It's just a means to shut down anyone that offers a rational rebuttal to their statenents.
You simply have to NOT CARE what they call you.... they're weaponizing your empathy against you, and have zero empathy for you.
As a gay men, I don't want to be asociated with the alphabetical cult. They just don't want people to have different views, once I vocalize my concern they immidately label me transphobia. Whattt theee..
There are many instances where it is perfectly rational to be afraid of a transgender person, or of transgenderism. A girl in contact sport, or a changing room for example. The behaviour of some trans people when they have been mis-gendered also rationalises fear.
The work around. I'm afraid of clowns. That should cover it.
Now medicate me. 😂
There's a word for that: "coulrophobia."
"Transphobia" is an irrational fear of crossing anything, be it a mountain range or a piece of lint on the floor. As a describer of attitude towards sex it's a mis-applied term that acts mainly as an indicator of willful disorientation in the speaker.
Phobia is irrationality. Yup Leslie, nailed it.
This was wonderfully reasoned and articulated. I suggest that you publish it as an essay so others can access it and perhaps have it as a reference.
I'll post it to my substack as well. Thank you.
@@theradicalcenter Thank you!
Total control over other people's minds and speech isn't enough for these people.
Not assigned gender at birth. Sex is observed and recorded.
Obstetric nurse x 20+ years. Sex is PATENTLY OBVIOUS at birth !
I'm in my 30s and as a teenager I remember wondering out loud why every other hatred was an "-ism" but homophobia was a "-phobia." All these years later I see the game.
I agree with your assessment. Using derogatory terms like "homophobic" or "transphobic" to describe someone is wrong because it dehumanizes individuals, promotes discrimination and lacks empathy. Ironically, it undermines diversity and inclusion arguments.
If some deluded individual comes up to me and says he identifies as a pumpkin, and I tell him no, that he's a man, does that mean I'm "pumkinophobic" and that I have an irrational fear of pumpkins? This example sounds ridiculous, but it is no more ridiculous than the idea of transphobia.
Gender dysmorphia, which is what we're all talking about here was a tiny mental health issue only 10ish years ago. However, far left wing Intellectuals, who since the landing of the Frankfurt school at Columbia in 1935 have been trying to create their socialist utopia come true in the west and America specifically by subverting our social stability any which way they could. And what could subvert social stability more than changing the very definition of the most common words we use everyday and whose definition has been the same for literally forever. That's what's happening.
I find the idea absurd that a mental health issue, whose very name 99.8% of the population had never heard of until about 10 years ago, has over that time become almost as common as the flu. I think it much more likely those aforementioned far left wing Intellectuals saw a way to sow chaos by using a ready made population to do their sowing-Teenagers. A population that, for give or take 5-7 years goes through a sort of mental insanity with (especially in girls) Severe body, sexual & identity issue. And who Loves to spew Ideological babble that means virtually nothing but sounds profound but left wing Intellectuals. Just read the Communist Manifesto for page after page of Intellectual sound and fury signifying nothing. This entire (largely teen) Trans chaos we're seeing is Nothing but a psyop by the left to sow their long sought chaos in the American heartland.
And they're succeeding beyond their Wildest dreams.
Excellent comment.
@andrewnelson3681 I thank you good Sir.
I've always found it entertaining to hear them use phobia against us, while simultaneously calling us breeders. Sounds a little hypocritical and narcissistic to me.
Thanks so much, Leslie, for putting these matters in a reasonable and appropriate perspective. I agree and applaud all that you noted.
Gender is not simply a social construct, but has biological underpinnings related to sex. However, the meanings, expectations, and expressions associated with gender are heavily shaped by social and cultural factors.
While modern society rightly embraces the rights and dignity of transgender individuals, we must also recognize the distinct biological underpinnings that make male and female embodied realities profoundly different. Respecting this biological truth does not negate the humanity of any person, but simply acknowledges an inherent corporeal divide. Womanhood extends far beyond gender roles or identities - it is quite literally inscribed into the biological fabric of females in ways that transgender women can never fully replicate or experience.
I'm a sociologist with an emphasis on women's studies, class, race and gender, got my degree in 2004. When I was at school, gender was the way a particular society expects the two biological sexes to behave in their interactions with each other, and it variex from culture to culture. Sex is biology, male or female, and very rarely intersex. The word "gender" was also less shocking to say than "sex", so it was confusingly used as a synonym for sex. This, I think, may have been the beginning of the end...Words and their meanings are so important.
I was told never to listen to controversial conversations at my picture framing job, by my lady boss. A very recent trans-man hire came back into my personal garage workspace and overheard one of your discussions about trans ideology from the perspective of a de-transitioned trans man.
This new employee went straight to my female boss in tears and I had a talking to about sage spaces.
No amount of logical/rationale opinions mattered.
I’m going on 20 years with this company. It really disgusts me to think one new young trans hire can upset the workspace, but we do now employee several more female trans allied employees (bi, she/they, etc….).
So I’m now considered a pariah and someone to be wary of for listening to controversial educational materials.
No, I can’t wear headphones nor do I have extra time at home to hear these talks. I’ve been listening to these controversial topics for 10 years, openly, while working and minding my own business.
I have no respect for this new employee, as she did not once discuss her thoughts or objections with me first. Offensiveness is now a right.
And that co-worker purports to be a man? Candy-4ss!
What happens when you let insane people write the rules for society?
I'm sick and tired of hearing people tell me how to speak my own language. I'm not going to redefine my vocabulary.
It's a favorite word to use in a novel variation of narcissistic gaslighting, an attempt to coerce everyone else to participate in the delusion and to elevate the subscribed at the expense of all others.
I and 100’s of millions of others appreciate your take on this. Every adult in the room already knows that the whole movement depends upon highjacking language and redefining common terms to suit their dysfunction. Also, stats are skewed/misinterpreted, the science is fraudulent/debunked.
Trans persons want to codify/legitimize their personality, placing that emotional identity on the same level as their body identity in ways that no other human being does in society.
Great explanation. They most likely will label this as "misinformation." Thank you!
Isn't it more an irrational fear of what transgengerism will do in society rather than a fear of the individual trans person? Homophobia the irrational fear of what harm homosexuality might do in society. The irrational fear that if two men get married then the entire institution of marriage will crumble. The irrational (or rational to be honest) fear of what Islam will do to society.
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It is confusing just like trying to define how to square a circle. An impossibility in the real world. But this upside-down world did not came out of nowhere.
“The shift from character education to the decision-making model was begun with the best of intentions. The new approach was meant to help students to think more independently and critically about values. Proponents claimed that a young person would be more committed to self-discovered values than to ones that were simply handed down by adults.
That was the hope. But the actual consequences of the shift have been quite different:
It has resulted in classrooms where teachers act like talk show hosts, and where things like the merits of cannibalism are recommended topics for debate. It has resulted in non-judgmental drug education programs in which drugs are scarcely mentioned except to say that taking them is a personal choice.
For students, it has meant wholesale confusion about moral values: learning to question values they have scarcely acquired, unlearning values taught at home, and concluding that questions of right and wrong are always merely subjective. For adults it has provided a theoretical basis for questioning the importance or necessity of setting a good example to the young.
It has meant that the development of moral education curriculums has been turned over to theorists who have repeatedly expressed disdain for concepts such as virtue, character, and good example; the same theorists have dismissed past culture and history as being irrelevant to the search for values.
It has created a generation of moral illiterates: students who know their own feelings but don't know their culture. “Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong. By William K. Kilpatrick
The misdiagnosis of a phobia that's being thrown in everyone's face is clearly gaslighting, and it's also social bullying. It seems much more accurate to describe the people using the term transphobia as being the ones who are actually genuinely phobic, like heterophobic
What you've said here is incredibly sane and thoughtful in both senses of the word.
At the end of the day the only thing that can make this kind of thing disappear is not to oppose or resist the label but to be understanding and find compassion for the labeler. Something like: wow, that must be really painful for you to experience that kind of thinking about others. So, not to deny it or accept it. Just making a little bit of human connection and hearing them, which is all they really want anyway.
All I hear throughout is "you WILL talk this way!" "DO NOT have thoughts that differ from ours!" I could link this to various 20th century regimes (of both far right and left). Draw your own conclusions.
On top of being a false premise, labels people call you like "transphobic" etc. are used in place of an actual argument and are therefore fallacies. First, it is a straw man fallacy; you are misrepresenting the person's argument or position. Second, it is an ad hominem attack of some form; you are attacking the person instead of the argument. In a case like being called a "nazi" this is a guilt by association fallacy; this group is bad, you are like that group, therefore you are bad.
Eminem once said “homophobic, no you are just heterophobic”
He's also a filthy Lions fan.
Islamophobia could be a legitimate fear.
This deserves at least five million views!♥️👌🏾
It is just a symptom of the “look at me, I’m special” crowd.
Thanks for the video!!!
Narcissists.
transph0bia is sanity
islamoph0bia is sanity too.
Yup. I used to identify as nonbinary and contemplated using hormones multiple times, but I eventually reached a point of understanding that there is no objective way to feel like a woman or a man. Now I'm realizing how nonsensical a lot of the talking points of trans advocacy are. Acknowledging biological sex is not a bad thing!
Exactly: yes, you are right in the pulse and your nuanced argument is great. I agree: I refuse to concede to the pronouns or gender identity requests/ demands.
I'm scared of 19-year-olds with blue hair and septum rings. I usually dive in hedges to avoid them.
Great, great video.Thank you for putting it All interperspective and articulating that. Yes I think it's complete nonsense to call someone "transphobic" for having common sense and not wanting to put up with abuse. The people that are most susceptible to caving to the trans ideology And conforming to it are the nice people that don't want to offend others and want to be respectful. I certainly don't want to offend people But I don't want to feel manipulated indo lying about what someone's sex is Is to "affirm their gender identity". Have to draw a line somewhere. So Ive had to think long and hard and examine this ideology To decide where I stand and i've come to the decision i'm not Going to play gender pronoun sharades. This video helps To conjure a better more confident Understanding in my mind as To why " Transfobic" is an absolute false premise and should be rejected. Thank you again for the video. I'll Subscribe. 🥂
Great video! Thanks for helping me articulate some things I've been struggling to for years. As a linguist, I have a suggestion for one way to strengthen your argument: Don't rely so much on dictionary definitions as an authority on word meanings. One thing the other side understands well is that language is an organic process (not a static thing as it is represented in the dictionary). Word meanings do naturally change, regardless of what the dictionary says at any one point in time. Their mistake, though, is in presuming to dictate these changes for a political aim. Just because language changes over time doesn't mean you somehow get to tell people how to talk.
For most people, their concerns literally have nothing to do with trans people at all. They’re worried about kids who *arent* trans receiving incorrect treatment that they’ll regret later on.
For example, most people would object to giving diabetes treatments to someone with no diabetes. Does that mean you’re anti-diabetic? Not even remotely! It just means you don’t want people to receive incorrect treatment that might hurt them.
There's a lot of excellent points that you made in this video. Thank you for pointing out the logical fallacies, internal contradictions and general misuses of language we hear so much from this "movement." I'll spread the word. If only our institutions still implemented such informed and critical thinking.
All of their phobia designations fall under this perspective. Even though there is nothing “irrational” about having concerns for whatever it is they are firing upon us. It’s all language manipulation and semantics. Like everything else they do, it folds under scrutiny.
Which is why you are not allowed to dissent.
I always love it when someone from the commubity has not gotten caught up in the energy of "we are all one against the rest of the world." You are rare. I love it when someone stands up against the tide of popularity you have done that. Thank you. I am just a man that felt a type of way when I met a Trans woman long ago and I did not know at the time. I knew she was different but I like different as a lot of men to but just not this different. There is not much data on why I connected with her but just like rejection of Trans persons is bad wanting to date them exclusively because of how their energy made you feel is also not considered real. Keep encouraging us to step out alone if necessary for the truth. There are enough of us who still resprect it.
i have no fear or hate for them. I simply believe that you cannot change your gender. I don't believe it is biologically possible.
If mutilate is too strong a word...stealing too strong a word...should we say liberate instead of theft/stealing/burglary?
Circumcision is theft and mutilation
it is just a huge gaslighting
of 3 things:
1 - the effect of multigenerational wrong food eating.
2 - endocrine disruptor exposure
and 3 - childhood sexual trauma that is being avoided from being processed.
great video,
When you mentioned an article saying that it is transphobic to believe people make out only with someone you could have children with. This is an interesting paradox, of course we are wired to have sex with the purpose [and not necessarily the intent] of having children, that's basic evolutionary psychology. However it is interesting that every human (well...most, there is an asexual crowd) still has a deep need for love and physical, sensual, sexual connection. I do believe these journalists have flipped the script upside down ; it is not that everyone have sex and heterosexuals happen to make children, it is that everyone has a deep sexual drive for reproduction, and mating happens to be the only way to calm the hormones.
The thing to figure out is WHY did this pathology suddenly increase, was their some sort of environmental factor that came about. We all get so tied up with looking at and arguing over effect rather than looking to the source and figuring out the cause
Money. People and their views can be bought, with enough money you can buy normalcy or the appearance of it - people accept whatever ideas are pushed upon them if it will affect their income. There is a huge amount of money buying public opinion.
The “phobia” that this particular group created towards anyone who disagrees or even towards de-transitioners is equally applicable to them, as they see straight men/women as less than. They are legitimately fearful of them as well, making their phobia pretty solid.
Well done. Wonderful. Articulate and logical. Thank you very much.
You approach these types of topics from a place of love and understanding. This is the way. Love to see it
A lot of women are very candid about how they won't date me because of my height (5'6".) I don't see anybody canceling them over their preferences. Yes, I agree that the transgendered have a right not to be harmed and mistreated. I acknowledge that there always have been and always will be people who are different, sexually. They don't deserve to be celebrated, admired and perhaps even emulated. And it's not violence or hatred to question the narrative that they are pushing.
SAME SEX ATTRACTED OPPOSITE SEX ATTRACTED NO GENDER INVOLVED
Unfortunately, it worked so unbelievably well with "homophobic" that the powers-that-be are never going to give up the framing.
"But they're not the same thing!" you want to say. Exactly. It worked so unbelievably well that they're not going to give up this framing.
Transphobia is an asinine term.
You are wasting your time trying to play word gymnastics with these people. It’s OK to reject them and not be ashamed of it. They don’t accept us so
why do we need to accept them?
People who cannot accept themselves and biological reality.
What a sensible, well-considered and well expressed video. Thank you so much for adding all this much-needed clarity to a very fuzzy, messed up topic.
I can’t believe you didn’t burst out laughing after reading some of those excerpts, but it looks like there was no video “disfigurement”. Yes, I know it’s not funny because you’ve gone through a particular hell for speaking your mind on this and other issues, but I found myself laughing when you read some of them. Applause to you for examining this so cogently and patiently. Brava!
These people are at odds with reality and nature but you cant control reality so they lash out at people and label them "phobic". No matter what label they want to use, at the end of the day they are really just mad at reality. Their frustration with the understanding that they are ultimately fighting a losing battle with truth is taken out on anyone that reminds them of the reality. I still want to treat these people with respect and as people that are entitled to their opinions. However, when you want to force people to acknowledge or accept false premises has put a wedge in my support. There is something obvious devious going on when they want to brainwash children into believing this nonsense is also a line that I cant support. Truth matters and they can try and control me but they will never convince me nor will they ever change the reality. I hope they get the help they need and can leave children alone
Thank you for this video, beforehand I have been rejecting this whole linguistic framework. I have been learning in recent months (with regards to the video games) that there are companies hired as "Sensitive readers" (Sweet Baby Inc for example) to incorporate their gender neutral words and ideologies into games. I don't see a problem with regards to a few games having this (to each their own) but it has spread to more and more in recent years. As if they want the public as a whole to accept it. If you don't then you are called a bigot or a phobe. These people trying to push a narrative is only causing a division now. I have no issues with anyone, though I don't appreciate being called something I'm not. They don't seem to value any other opinion then their own and I don't agree with such a mindset.
I think it all comes under the heading of social engineering. You're attempting to manipulate language and human behavior with the goal of compelling people to speak and act in a certain way with implied threats of consequences if they don't.
The threats are not just implied in some places. They are backed up with legislation
I don't like onions on my burgers. I do not fear onions, I do not run screaming from the restaurant if I see onions, smell them or see others enjoying their onions. I don't want them and I do not want someone trying to bully me into having them. If someone starts calling me onionphobic as an insult to either use me as a poster boy for their campaign to make us all eat onions or as leverage to guilt trip me into eating them to be inclusive of the onion people we are gonna have issues.
If I may be even more reductionist for your argument, to preface your more detailed discussion the false premise itself is speciation. That's the false premise activists are working upon and the very basis for activist lobby of special rights and accommodations, which by the false premise of speciation itself in fact replaces common rights of objective refences like biological gender, with distributed rights by social organisation, an inherently national socialist ideal created in Germany during the 1920s. Obviously, this is both in concert with and an extension of racial policies that inherently function upon the same false premises of behavioural determinism through speciation. Eugenics or in this case neo-Eugenics, what people are referring to as transhumanism and the foundation driving those determined to govern by social engineering and those are mainstream ideas, which is where it intersects.
That's the problem with it. The symptoms are all the things we see, from child mutilation experiments on a national scale to legalisation of violent crimes like sexual assault under inclusivity labels, all to further the political ideal, this perfect moral virtue of social conscience and justice. They don't see the evils they do for the virtue they believe in.
The argument itself lay in the basic premise of speciation, without which all the trans lobby arguments fall to pieces. Gender affirming medical care becomes child sexual assault and child mutilation if the presumption trans behaviour is deterministic is false, yet it is quite falsified by any objective rigour at all rendering the position of some medical authorities upon this an exploitation of public ignorance driven by political and financial agenda. It's child abuse if children cannot be born trans, which they cannot obviously, and only works as an argument for corrective or supportive treatment if children are born trans, but it is impossible to be born a behaviour. Trans sexuality is nothing but an adult sexual lifestyle behaviour, it is not anything else. It is not a desire to do anything, it is not a neurological construction of any kind, it is not a recipe of genetic markers which could never be identified in any case, it is not anything but an act of will, the same with every other form of behaviour.
They say, it is a speciation and as such significant of deterministic behaviour. It is a lie; it is harming children. Malevolent doesn't even begin to cover it.
Well done, Leslie. Measured, compassionate and insightful. I've shared many of your videos with therapists and professors in my circle, all of whom find them helpful and refreshing. Thanks!