Mind the gap
If you look at it as a test of faith / proud defiance of reason in favor of faith, it all fits.
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights. This is not up for debate. #TransDayOfVisibility pic.twitter.com/CaYu0iprpt
— National NOW (@NationalNOW) March 31, 2019
That claim doesn't pass any epistemic test. The only other claims that fail every epistemic test but which institutions of power enforce anyway are religious: the exitence of gods & our duty of obediece to them. Do these sorts of new non-debatable claims fill in a secular gap?
— MarinaS (@marstrina) April 1, 2019
In a world where saying "I believe God can be Three and One, simultaneously & without contradiction" no longer endows one with membership of the Community of the Good, does saying "I believe that trans women are women and trans, simultaneously & without contradiction" fill a gap?
— MarinaS (@marstrina) April 1, 2019
Well put. It reminds me of this:
“Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
It’s a religious cult that wants to compel the rest of us to observe and believe (or at least keep our doubts to ourselves).
It’s hard to maintain faith in a chimera when there are doubters and skeptics around, openly doubting and skepting. Debating your precious articles of faith as if they were truth claims like any others.
Cult, yes. Religious, I’m not so sure. At this point it’s still just a bunch of men who want validation for their fantasies. Which, I guess, is how religions start.
/*endless screaming at the vision of the Future Church*/
Changing water into wine is just a cheap conjuring trick compared to changing a man into a woman by belief* alone. Not even JC could pull that one off (pardon the accidental pun).
* albeit a very strongly and sincerely held internal belief. So strong and sincere, in fact, that it must not be questioned…..so, not like religious belief at all, then.
But there are only 3 points on the NOW compass above. Any more possibilities?
And to make sure t have got this right: whatever sex I (a) feel myself to be and/or (b) believe myself to be on this 3 point compass is what I am.
Please understand that I am just trying to flatten out my own confusion on the matter.
I’m told the possibilities range as wide as you like them to be. Why, you’re gender can even be pizza! Or so I’m told.
Anyone want to make a symbol for “my gender is pizza”? Pliny?