It’s everyone’s favorite word—the tofu of nonsensical terms since it absorbs any flavor it touches.
That’s right, dear readers. It’s time to talk about “gender” and the top ten stupidest definitions for it. I’m sure some of you have already heard at least of few of these from myriad “trans” defenders.
Read on to the conclusion for the true definition!
1. Sex
Who hasn’t heard that sex and gender are completely different and totally unrelated? Galaxy brains like Judith Butler have built academic careers on this nonsense.
Yet, we must accept that sex and gender are now the same since they apparently can be used interchangeably. What is being revealed at a gender reveal party? Is it not the sex of the child?
This confusion is even recorded as law in California, the most populous and culturally influential state in the US, in government code §12926:
“Sex” also includes, but is not limited to, a person's gender. “Gender” means sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender expression. “Gender expression” means a person's gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.
Huh? Sex is gender, and gender is sex? Why didn’t any of the genius politicians in California consult Judith Butler, who has taught at UC Berkeley for over 30 years that the opposite is true?
There are two sexes—female (XX chromosomes and eggs) and male (XY chromosomes and sperm). Sex is binary, immutable, and genetic disorders don’t change this as there is no spectrum.
This isn’t complicated. If you mean sex, then say sex. There is no point in using gender except to purposely confuse.
2. Social Roles
Even after using gender interchangeably with sex, “trans” defenders will then seamlessly move to insisting gender actually means social roles that are based on sex.
What does this mean? Being a woman is playing pretend? A role? Like Ophelia in Hamlet?
Ask for a concrete example of a role a woman is apparently meant to play. Prepare for either a response of silence or something so idiotic that it simply beggars belief.
Being a woman isn’t a role. We’re not playing pretend. The girls in Afghanistan aren’t pretending when they’re told they can’t go to school. Being a woman is a reality rooted in biology, not a role to play.
Additionally, if gender is just roles based on sex and there are two sexes, how many genders are there? The only logical answer is two, but tranny defenders will never admit to that because there are apparently 64, 104, 504, or infinity genders. This question causes some hilarious word salad responses—try it as a fun party trick!
3. Passing
Sometimes, it becomes apparent that “trans” defenders are arguing that gender is passing as the opposite sex. They’re just generally not intelligent enough to admit that’s what they’re proposing.
Let’s discuss passing, that is, fooling society into thinking one is the opposite sex. How many males truly pass, including appearance and voice? Very few. Are they the only ones who count as “transgender”? If not, why not? And by whose standards are these judgments made?
Does this man pass? How did he “change his gender”? Why isn’t he in a mental hospital? Why don’t these men have the ability to feel shame?
Even in the rare occasion that a male does pass as female and tricks everyone around him, he’s still not the opposite sex. Fool’s gold is not gold, even if everyone thinks it is.
A passing male’s experience is not that of a female. It is of a male who has managed to fool everyone and live a lie. That’s not a social role or reality. It’s fraud.
4. Stereotypes
I’ve had several “trans” defenders insist to me that gender is actually stereotypes.
How does one build an identity on stereotypes? Is that a valid existence? If one were asked to provide some examples of those stereotypes, what would they be?
Just say stereotypes if that’s the proper word to use. One does not transcend his sex by adopting opposite sex stereotypes. Much of time, males just act like males when they’re denied pronouns, access to women’s sports, placement in women’s prisons—anger, violence, temper tantrums, etc.
Most don’t adopt any female stereotypes besides wearing makeup, and even if they did, men are still not women.
5. Norms
Every so often, we’ll hear the protestation that gender is actually norms.
Stella O’Malley, who has apparently made this very topic her career, insisted that to me on this very platform. She stated that an example of a norm is that women are typically interested in people while men are interested in things.
A norm is something that is usual, typical, or standard, hence “normal.” Is this different from stereotypes? And who cares even if it isn’t? Just say norm that if that’s the proper word to use. “Transnorm” or “norm identity disorder” sound truly idiotic.
A woman who is interested in things is still a woman. A man who is interested in people is still a man. This is meaningless.
Furthermore, it is obvious that none of these cross-dressing males are engaging in anything viewed as normal for women besides the dumbest sexist stereotypes involving high heels or “skirt go spinny.”
I wish these men would be interested in any people besides themselves and things like their insane male egos. Speaking of normal!
6. Hormone Levels
Occasionally, mentally ill cross-dressers will insist that they have transitioned genders once they begin taking synthetic versions of opposite sex hormones. Therefore, a male taking estrogen is apparently a woman, while a female on testosterone is a man.
Why do these people need to meddle with their biology when gender is just social? Are they just trying to pass, and are they succeeding? Please see above.
A male with very low or even zero testosterone levels is still male. A female on testosterone is still female. Hormone levels do not change sex, and plenty of mentally ill cross-dressers don’t take any synthetic hormones at all.
Jarron “Jazz” Jennings (real last name Bloshinsky) has never been exposed to testosterone due to puberty blockers and estrogen treatment. It doesn’t matter. He’s still male and will never be female.
7. Plastic surgery and mutilation
Everyone reading this has probably heard terms like “gender medicine” or “gender clinic.”
What is the definition here? What does “gender medicine” truly involve? What takes place at a “gender clinic”?
The most accurate descriptions are simply plastic surgery and mutilation. A man who gets his forehead shaved down because he has a prominent male eyebrow ridge is paying a plastic surgeon to mutilate his body. The same goes for a man who pays to have his testicles removed and penis inverted, as well as a woman who pays to have her healthy breast tissue removed and an imitation penis fashioned from leg flesh.
This is a woman named Mackenzie McClelland, and she was mutilated by surgeons because they preferred to take her money rather than treat her severe mental illness.
If gender just means mutilation, then say mutilation. Mutilation medicine has a certain ring to it, does it not?
8. Feelings
It’s quite common to hear people who refer to themselves with any kind of ridiculous term that has gender in it (genderqueer, genderfluid, transgender, etc.) as always having felt different.
What does this mean? Gender is feelings? This refers to a man who feels like he’s a woman?
Does Dylan Mulvaney feel like he’s a girl? What would be his point of reference? He’s a narcissistic homosexual male who hates women. It doesn’t matter what he feels like.
Define what a man is, define what a woman is, and then explain how a man can feel like he’s a woman.
I’ve asked quite a few people to do this. Guess how many logical responses I’ve heard.
9. Personality
Quite frequently, it becomes apparent that gender can mean personality, especially when someone insists that there are 64, 104, 504, or infinity genders (see #2).
Each individual has a unique personality which can be tested and described, generally using the two most popular personality tests available today—the Five Factor Model and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Females and males have personality tendencies, but there is significant overlap as well.
A female with male personality tendencies is still female. A male who has female personality tendencies is still male. No surgery, hormones, or cross-dressing needed.
If you mean personality, then say personality. Simple.
10. Men in Dresses in Various Cultures
Finally, as a last resort, the truly high-IQ defenders of the “trans” lie will invariably point to various third world societies that allow men to parade around in dresses as a way to filter out male homosexuality from polluting fragile masculinity (“it’s cool bro, this is a girl, see the dress, so if we have sex it’s totally not gay!”).
It doesn’t matter what happens in isolated villages in Pakistan or how many genders some Native American tribes used to recognize.
Aztecs used to cut human hearts out and hold them up to the sun so it would keep shining. Women in India used to self-immolate on the funeral pyres of their husbands (called sati) until the British banned it.
Is anybody advocating a return to these practices? If not, why not?
The practices of any cultures regarding gender have no relevance to modern medical procedures today. Doctors aren’t citing Bangladeshi tribes when they give young boys puberty blockers or remove healthy breast tissue from autistic teenage girls.
A recent case in India involved a man in a dress who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder a three-month-old girl. Will “trans” defenders also support the death penalty for tranny rapists as a way to emulate the culture?
If gender is just men in dresses, just say men should be allowed to wear dresses. There is no need for birth certificate changes, laws, surgery, medical care, or anything else.
Conclusion
Ready for the true definition of gender? Here it comes…
Nothing. It means nothing because it has no application to humans.
Gender is a linguistics term for words. Words have gender; humans do not.
John Money, the charlatan most responsible for the modern use of the term, knew that and intentionally sought to cause confusion by applying the term to humans.
And he succeeded.
This is why when I asked the account “Gender: A Wider Lens” what gender means, they couldn’t answer.
There is no answer.
They can waste hundreds of hours trying to find a definition. They never will.
If it can mean anything and everything, it means nothing.
Just use an accurate term in place of “gender.” One always exists.
Then watch the confusion dissipate.
Apropos of nothing, #10 reminds me of a joke that I thought was an absolute gas when I was a little kid:
Male comedian: I used to be a real womanizer. I would chase anything in a skirt… until that Scotsman beat the hell out of me.
I am so on board with this.
Till about 5 years ago, I didn’t have any issue with people using “gender” as a euphemism for “sex,” e.g., on forms and such. Happily ticked the “F” box for myself.
Now: I hate it because I honestly don’t know what’s meant. If I ever find that question on a paper form again, I will cross out “gender” and write in “sex.” When it comes up in person, I try to make the correction orally. Online forms are frustrating, though. I find myself “declining to state” with increasing frequency (when that’s an option).