What's going on with all this gender stuff?
Posted: Fri 06 Oct, 2023 18.26
Now, I will admit, I don't follow any of it too closely, but some comments made by Rishi Sunak have been bouncing around social media with incredible volume (and degrees of bile) and I will say I'm genuinely perplexed by it all.
I'll put all my cards on the table here: humans can't change sex. There is no pill or process I can go through as a biological male which will switch me into a women, who can then get pregnant and bear a child. Male and female, men and women are fundamental categories of biology. That to me is what sex is: women can have babies, men can't.
It seems there are some people, who identify as transgender, like India Willoughby, who genuinely believes they have transitioned and are now a biological female and many people now go along with it.
When did this happen? when did the terms men and women become an identity and something you can just become? and how can it be reconciled?
I'll put all my cards on the table here: humans can't change sex. There is no pill or process I can go through as a biological male which will switch me into a women, who can then get pregnant and bear a child. Male and female, men and women are fundamental categories of biology. That to me is what sex is: women can have babies, men can't.
It seems there are some people, who identify as transgender, like India Willoughby, who genuinely believes they have transitioned and are now a biological female and many people now go along with it.
When did this happen? when did the terms men and women become an identity and something you can just become? and how can it be reconciled?