Let's talk about Gender Theory

For most of human history, Gender and Sex were synonyms. They were used interchangeably and referred to the same things. If it was in medicine, law, care, Gender always meant your biological sex. The separation of sex and gender as two separate concepts started rising around the mid 20th century. This isn't an ancient or universal thing; Gender Theory is a modern theory that's less than give or take 80 years old.

In medical literature, the first appearance to the theory is the infamous John Money case which is a horrid example to gender theory if anyone brings it up as it just ended up in disaster, and only suggests that even in an case where someone truly believes from the get go that they were the opposite gender, gender in reality isn't actually that malleable. Money believed that gender identity was mostly learned, and assigned roles could override biology if done early enough in life. The outcome to his proposal suggests otherwise. The case involves David Reimer, a boy whose botched circumcision led Money to recommend he be raised as a girl. Money claimed it was a success but Reimer rejected the female identity, experienced lifelong psychological trauma, and ultimately took his own life.

Far from proving gender theory, this case only supports that biology matters, even if you put someone on hormones and tell them from the beginning they're their opposite gender. It can also suggest that gender identity is not just a social construct it’s tied to something real and innate.

Many people today including scientists, parents, or just regular folks in general don’t accept gender theory as universal truth. And here's why:

  1. It's a modern, changing definition definition. Before the 20th century, no civilization made a clear difference between “gender” and “sex.” The idea that “man” and “woman” can be identities unrelated to biology is new, unproven, and not universally accepted.

  2. It conflicts with basic biology.

Men and women are biologically wired differently — hormonally, physically, and even cognitively on average. (Some people reject this even though that's just serious cope. I'm saying this as I'm in my 3rd year in pre-med, but a simple Google search is plenty to know this is true). A person may feel different from their sex, but feeling isn’t the same as being.You cannot change your chromosomes, even with surgery or hormones.

  1. It creates confusion, not clarity.

We're now told that "man" and "woman" are fluid, that gender is a spectrum, and that anyone can self-identify as anything. Saying gender is a spectrum in itself is a dilemma amongst LGBT logic as if someone were to ask how many genders there are, the logical answer would be to say that because gender is a spectrum, asking how many genders there are is like asking how many colours there are. This is ridiculous on its own as the vast majority of folks involved in LGBTQ only accept a handful of new genders. Many agree that there's a line where gender becomes reason and unreasonable. This has led to social, legal, and medical dilemmas, especially when feelings are prioritized over facts, if that's in sports, prisons, schools, and children’s healthcare.

  1. It opens the door to subjective truth.

If being male or female is just a feeling, then where do we draw the line? How many genders are there? (That the vast majority of people in LGBT will accept universally). What happens when identities contradict one another? Truth becomes personal and emotional, not grounded in anything objective.

I'm not trying to say that gender theory is objectively wrong. I'm just explaining why I don't accept it and why many other people don't. I'm not encouraging that you go to a trans person's face and scream that they're not a woman, I'm just explaining why I don't accept that as womanhood and why many don't as well.

Regardless on your stance I want to have civil conversations where we can find middle ground, and I don't condone any hostility in the comments. We're all human, let's be kind.

Alright, what do you think?