The bizarre semantics by which Antolak/“Jones” claims that the penis is not “male genitals” is a perfect example of the lunatic ideology of the transgender cult.
I wonder what Zinnia Jones’s actual argument is. Somehow, I suspect it’s fairly sensible, because I’ve read some things written by her, and those have generally been quite well-argued and sane.
Maybe part of it was her noting how genitals look, feel and function differently when a person goes on different sex hormones… in which case she would simply be speaking the truth. By the way, that’s something that happens to individuals of either birth sex.
Also, nice deadnaming there, asshole.
Their efforts to distort language, to change the meanings of words, and to force the rest of to accept their revised definitions, represent a dishonest attempt to obtain validation by compelling others to ratify their delusions.
News flash: language is a fluid organism, it changes when there is need for it, and also generally shifts over time, sometimes even evolving into new languages.
Guess what, perhaps it might be sometimes useful to add new meanings to certain terms, or adopt new terms altogether to adequately cover the transgender experience. This is no conspiracy; indeed, if enough people agree with the need for that change, it will spread to the point of becoming the norm in a language. And that is… quite fine, actually.
As the feminist site 4th Wave Now points out
More accurately: “As the TERF site 4th Wave Now points out”
“gender dysphoria occurs with troubling frequency in concert with a range of other mental disturbances, including personality disorders, depression, anxiety, and autism.”
You’re actually right! Buuut… your interpretation of it is wrong. It’s not so much a matter of transgender people being ‘confused’ about their gender and “often confused about a lot of other things” — but of how gender dysphoria, especially when unrecognized, untreated and suppressed, affects their lives overall:
These people have desires and ways of thinking that are in conflict with prevailing social norms (“You’re a man/woman, so you have to be like this and not like that”), they often internalize those same views as being ‘right’ and then feel like failures, even moral failures, when they inevitably can’t live up to those expectations, and even when they do, it’s often as a forced pretense where they act as something they’re fundamentally not (but most people around them insist they should be).
Transgender folks don’t belong, and when it shows, they often find themselves mercilessly mocked, ‘correctively’ bullied and even physically attacked — even by members of their family. Thus it becomes a choice between trying to be true to themselves, or being accepted by society. It’s not uncommon that they find themselves disowned and kicked out by family and friends.
And then you have the mental effects of dysphoria itself, which can be crippling by themselves, especially when one is forced not to do anything about it.
All of that is just part of what it means to be a transgender person pre-transition.
Is it any wonder how such extreme psychological stress can lead to further mental issues?
P.S. Autism is not a ‘mental disturbance’. It’s a neurological configuration — a particular range of personalities, ways of thinking and sensing that differ from the norm.
Part of what’s going on here is a consequence of decades of schools promoting “self-esteem,” where every child gets a participation trophy, and everyone has a right to believe they’re awesome. This nonsense doesn’t equip young people for adult life, where there are winners and losers, and where the vast majority of people must struggle along without any praise, encouragement or recognition for their efforts. Having never learned to endure hardship with stoic dignity (which is what all children should be taught), the young misfits full of “self-esteem” become convinced that the world has somehow cheated them of the praise to which the Special Snowflakes believe they are entitled.
Ah yes, what people need is more bullying. That’ll fix them!
And if you think transgender people have never faced or “learned to endure hardship”, well, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
That view is so utterly ignorant or even plain delusional that arguing with you about it would be pointless.
Believe me, trans people know a hell of a lot about hardship, as well as lack of praise, encouragement or recognition.