Your most important insight in this article is that the pronoun war is really about a denial of truth. The notion that our language must be mutilated in order to adjust to a those who deny their genetic makeup is frightening for the future. This is not to deny that those who are confused about gender do not exist. They do. But that confu…
Your most important insight in this article is that the pronoun war is really about a denial of truth. The notion that our language must be mutilated in order to adjust to a those who deny their genetic makeup is frightening for the future. This is not to deny that those who are confused about gender do not exist. They do. But that confusion does not change their genetic profile. A person is genetically xx or xy no matter how she or he feels. Moreover, their are genetic problems that give a very small portion a profile other than xx or xy, but these are recognized as genetic malformations. The notion that one can change empirical reality by virtue of how one feels is an act of insanity. When one suffers paranoid delusions, medical treatment recognizes that the cause of the resulting feelings is delusional. But what we are doing in the pronoun wars is laying a foundation for claiming that delusions are reality because a person has feelings consistent with such delusions. But feelings to do not create facts; else we would encourage people who "feel" that they can fly by flapping their arms to jump from buildings to try out their wings. But this is precisely what we are encouraging people to do by agreeing with them that they can legitimately change their pronouns. To the degree that we accommodate insanity, to that degree we accept that insanity is right and encourage ourselves and others to become insane. Unfortunately, that is where we are right now.
Your most important insight in this article is that the pronoun war is really about a denial of truth. The notion that our language must be mutilated in order to adjust to a those who deny their genetic makeup is frightening for the future. This is not to deny that those who are confused about gender do not exist. They do. But that confusion does not change their genetic profile. A person is genetically xx or xy no matter how she or he feels. Moreover, their are genetic problems that give a very small portion a profile other than xx or xy, but these are recognized as genetic malformations. The notion that one can change empirical reality by virtue of how one feels is an act of insanity. When one suffers paranoid delusions, medical treatment recognizes that the cause of the resulting feelings is delusional. But what we are doing in the pronoun wars is laying a foundation for claiming that delusions are reality because a person has feelings consistent with such delusions. But feelings to do not create facts; else we would encourage people who "feel" that they can fly by flapping their arms to jump from buildings to try out their wings. But this is precisely what we are encouraging people to do by agreeing with them that they can legitimately change their pronouns. To the degree that we accommodate insanity, to that degree we accept that insanity is right and encourage ourselves and others to become insane. Unfortunately, that is where we are right now.