i fundamentally disagree with the idea that transgender people are some indication that binary gender is made up.
you can just do whatever the fuck you want and it actually doesn't matter if this is some weird offshoot or if someone decides to come up with the idea of being nonbinary. Wanting to do that thing is what makes it real and deserving of the same consideration as anything else.
people exist to shit out babies and that is it. Anything you say otherwise you may as well just be a catholic or a scientologist because you are definitively picking a side, you just don't like the label "religion" for trying to put some kind of meaning and order onto the universe.
you are a strand of DNA designed to your flesh into procreation. to do this, the species that you are has male and female and developed some very loose differences between the two. everything you and I think about anything is downstream of that. maybe we find out there's some material component to people being gender minorities, and it turns out there's some mechanism doing this, maybe we don't and it's just a thing you do. but the key is:
it has no moral character whatsoever. none. it is not good or bad or ethical or unethical. moderate sexual dimorphism for the purpose of procreation. we devloped gender roles in reaction to this. anything beyond this is diverting from our natural state of living in filth and bashing eachothers skulls open over who gets how many bananas.
if you decide that gender is fake, you are allowed to do that. You are not remotely required to justify yourself as natural.
we split the atom and went to space. everything the species did after developing the cognition to use tools stopped being natural.
You can just decide to do whatever the fuck your thing is.
just understand that unless you do some mad science, the baseline is going to be more or less what we define as cisgendered people shitting out babies until we are all dead.
and frankly, why the fuck do you want a sexual minority to assert itself as the majority?
When the big argument was gay marriage, there was fearmongering that everyone was going to become gay, that there would be this fundamental shift in society. and then it turned out that just a lot of people who had been in the closet now weren't. and they got married sometimes. I'm sure some weird freaks wanted this to be the end of heterosexuals, but I haven't heard from them.
so why this time around are we trying to define various transgenderisms as something that undermines the fundamental fabric of reality when in fact it's going to be the same as with gay rights.
"some people want to be girls more than boys and vice versa. and sometimes neither" ok! got it.
like, why is it that now we gotta have new branches of philosophy when it's pretty clear that this is a tiny percentage of people, the same number who could get any number of unique biological differences at birth. I'm not trying to compare transgender people to people born with webbed feet, but like. It would be fucking insane to fundamentally redefine what a human person is based off someone being born with a tail. That's just also a thing that happens, got it.
I'm reminded of that Toni Morrison quote. Racism is a waste of time. it keeps you from doing your work. you keep having to explain yourself.
some people do transgender stuff and it's fine. we tell everyone that's an option, now lets get on with it. "well i think this necessitates we reconsider-" no it does not, get a job. Every group that overcomes the barriers presented to them by hegemonic society has some contingent who insists on both the pro and anti side that if you cross this bridge the world will be turned upside down. Besides just the sheer hatred of antiblack racism in the united states, there was a sizeable contingent of people who didn't think black people could fundamentally be part of society. Like magic, it just would undermine life itself in a way almost like reversing gravity.
then it just didn't and then there were just black people at the store and stuff and it was fine.
but the thing is, you had both white AND shockingly some black people in the 1860s who thought it was not fundamentally possible for this to happen without upending the meaning of life itself.
oh ok so there's transgender people that'll be at the store and stuff? ok! easy enough. not sure why literally everyone wants to make something out of this. it doesn't matter to biological reality because you can do whatever the fuck you want for any reason and there's no reason you should have to prove it's natural or has some originalist material component to be allowed to do it.
