Simplifying and speeding up
Word it carefully now. Very very carefully. Take instructions from the BBC:
MSPs are debating final changes to controversial gender recognition reforms. The Scottish government legislation is aimed at simplifying and speeding up the process for trans people to change their legally recognised gender.
See how it’s done? The Beeb just assumes, with “the legislation is aimed at simplifying and speeding up the process,” that the “process” of declaring yourself the other sex should be simplified and sped up. Why? When declaring yourself the other sex is nonsensical, and when we’ve had years to expose all the ways this sort of declaring impinges on the rights of other people, especially women – why breezily assume that it needs simplifying and speeding up?
Because that’s the Approved View now, and the Beeb trots along with it like the dearest pony you ever saw. It also of course assumes that there is such a thing as “changing one’s legally recognized gender” [with gender meaning sex as well as gender-the-social category]. There isn’t, but it’s the done thing now to say there is, and rearrange one’s vocabulary to reflect that silly belief.
Supporters say the reforms will make the process less intrusive, bureaucratic and medicalised.
But what if the process is a bad thing in the first place? Why should we want it less intrusive, bureaucratic and medicalised? Let’s turn around and go the other way: make it impossible. Live and dress and lisp however you want, but don’t try to make the state put an official stamp on it.
Here’s an actual document, still active on the UN’s website, that clearly explains what gender actually is. I guess language evolves when you force it:
https://www.unfpa.org/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-gender-equality
How we’ve gotten from there to a formal declaration that gender identity is more important than sex in determining, um, sex class, is not a matter of language evolving. It’s a matter of language being forced, and the BBC are either ignorant of this or quite willing to go along with the forcing. I guess this is how we come to the conclusion that breaking down the sex class designations of “male” and “female” so that they become the equivalent to “masculine” and “feminine” is just something to make the lives of some people so much easier.
The new t-shirt will have to change so that it reflects the newspeak definition of “woman” from “Adult human female” to “Feminine adult human.”