I'm a radical leftist, and for me, there is only one term for equality, and that term is humanism - not feminism. Women's rights are human rights and precisely because of this their rights have always been part of universal humanism, with no need for female separatism, "femi-nism". There's only humanism, only equality for all, while "equality for one group" is self-contradictory. No such thing. This is why for decades the left never regarded feminism in any shape or form as being part of the leftist agenda, and up until five years ago it never was - almost no leftist, either man or woman, would say that they are a feminist or that feminism is an integral part of the definition of left. Since feminism was never part of the left before metoo (when feminism took over the left), I don't consider my rejection of female separatism aka femi-nism, as "conservative". I simply reject all types of divisions of humanity into groups of "us" and "them" - which always lead to the fascist sentiment (supremacy of "us" and a demonizing attitude toward "them") including in feminism. I don't see my rejection of feminism as conservatism. It's coming out of universal humanism, universal meaning - one humanity, all humans are for all humans.
The gender ideology that rejects human biology also has nothing to do with the leftist agenda. It was never part of the left or of being a leftist. I never accepted the gender ideology and I don't see this as conservatism in any way either, because I am a biologist, a neuroscientist to be exact, and I am simply aware of the neuroscientific studies on trans that show very clearly that the entire gender ideology is full of misinformation (for example, yes, there are innate differences between male and female brains in regions relevant to sexuality, you can indeed guess blindly with 100% accuracy sex from fMRI brain scans, trans brains have been shown to be typical of their sex at birth, hormones do not drive their brains to become of the other sex because the receptors for sex hormones are dispersed differently in the two sexes, so crossing hormones is not "the making out of one sex the other" but activates different things in each sex, because the receptors are not exactly in the same places and not with the same function - for example, the testosterone receptor is regulating the immune system in men but in women the receptor is not present on the same immune system cells - crossing hormones is not the creation of one sex out of the other, it's simply biologically not true to think it is).
Unfortunately the left became delusional (it became delusional in me too, when radical feminists with unfounded beliefs took over the left through an aggressive social media culture), and common sense is now called "conservative", but it's not. The new ideas of feminism and gender ideology have nothing to do with the leftist agenda - up until five years ago this wasn't part of being a leftist in any way. It's foreign to the left, and was imposed on it by a small group that uses social media as a weapon to spread unfounded ideas with threat and fear. Currently the masses on the left are indeed captives of these ideas, but the content of the ideas have nothing to do with the leftist perspective and those masses have become brainwashed - 5 years ago none of them had any of those insane ideas.
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