Human Freedom is Natural Right by Birth
My nature is mine because I was born the way I am. Nobody else has the right to take my human nature away from me. I wasn’t born a slave. Nobody ever is.
“Can we honestly say we’ve got an inclusive society until a hit TV series shows graphic footage of an eight-and-a-half pounder being pulled out of a penis? No we can’t” – J.K. Rowling
Is law now such a whore that I could name a kidney stone and assign it a gender at birth? Why not, since psychology now presumes to claim that "gender is assigned at birth" (assigned by whom? Psychologists? The STATE?) and not an ineluctable fact made apparent at birth and naturally belonging to the newborn person – not belonging to some authority, some doctor or even the mother to decide. That phrase 'assigned at birth' is in the psychologists' manual, so degenerated is our society now.
This phrase implies a doctrine which essentially destroys the concept of natural rights.
The cowardly intellectual community has given in to a vicious current fashion and adopted the language of slavery without having the forthrightness to admit what they have done. Who but a human slave-driver would presume to supplant God and even nature by adjudicating the sexuality of newborn infants. To "assign" any status or title to another person is to proclaim a kind of ownership. By implication this "assignment" is subject to change at the whim of the authority who made this determination.
The implication is that the sex of a human being is a mere adjunct no more fundamental to the being of a person than an item of clothing. This is the attitude typical of a slave master to his slaves. That is the road down which this doctrine of "Identity" is taking us all.
If I can decide or "assign" my sex, or my "race", or even my species, the ineluctable corollary is that others may decide these things for me without my permission. Next door along from “Trans"-Humanism is Dehumanization.
Only if my sex is considered to be not a human-created fact but a natural fact revealed, not 'assigned', at my birth and testified before society by the appearance of my genitals, only then is my sex guaranteed by custom and law to be mine and mine alone by natural right.
The concept of natural human rights is that as a free person, my body is my property and mine alone. My natural human rights are not 'assigned', they are mine by virtue of being born.
Trans-Humanists tell us that old time religion was tyranny and so when God is dispensed with we shall be free. I find the old religion more congenial than Yuval Harari's human-machine blend or Elon Musk’s computer implants or Klaus Schwab's Brave New World of witless dispossession.
"It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves.”
The Who - I'm a Boy (1967) - YouTube
I had to cringe with that 8 1/2 pounder visual that popped into my head. Noooooooo! But then maybe men could understand the PAIN that women go through... or some of them, anyway.
I have no problem with ADULTS who want to be fem/butch/whatever, look a certain way, behave a certain way... To me, behavior is a mostly gray area and the absolute black and white are extremes. Human beings are complex, generally speaking. But we do tend to be more or less on one side or the other of the Absolute Center of that grey "middle."
WHY does there need to be such controversy about this stuff? I think it's deliberate, to play on people's emotions, fears and needs and all that. Just as we're guided to believe things about other issues that may or may not be actual issues... such as skin color.
But the problem seems to be that this is really about confusing and manipulation of CHILDREN and teenagers. That is wrong. That is like teaching second-graders about masturbation... I think all that is horribly, horribly wrong. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE, I say. THAT stuff gets me really angry.
I'm just not going to play these games, and it sounds like you're pretty fed up with all this nonsense, too. Let's just treat everyone with some semblance of courtesy! (Imagine an exasperated dog! ^_^)