Is versus labeled as
I can’t even deal with this anymore. It’s too stupid.
The BBC asks from the pulpit:
What does trans mean and why is there a debate about transgender people’s rights?
Gosh, BBC, what fascinating questions. Please explain it all to us.
The UK Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex.
No, really?! Who knew? We thought it meant armadillo. No, ice cream soda. No, Lithuania. One of those, or something like them. Nothing to do with bibliological sekks.
What is biological sex?
The Supreme Court judgment used a simple definition of biological sex: it is the sex recorded at birth. The court said this is widely used in law.
Did it really? That definition isn’t simple, it’s incomplete. What if the people doing the recording happen to be drunk at the time? Bio sex isn’t what it is because it’s what’s recorded, it’s because it is. If a baby is born in the woods and the birth is not recorded, does it have no sex? Is that baby neither male nor female? Is it a little miracle plant baby?
Is the BBC sneaking in a strawman here? “They say sex is what’s written down when baby pops out but it’s so much more complicated than that!!!”
The Beeb tries deepities.
Gender identity is a term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.
Groovy man. Some people’s sense of who they are is that they’re much smarter, sexier, funnier, stronger, attractiver, importanter than most people. So what? Some people think too well of themselves. Can we move on now?
A transgender person describes their gender identity as different from their sex at birth.
And when they do that, you know they are tediously self-admiring and a waste of time. Find your jacket, check your wallet, and leave.
According to the NHS, gender dysphoria describes the “unease or dissatisfaction” some people feel about the mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. It says this can be “so intense it can lead to depression and anxiety and have a harmful impact on daily life”.
Especially when way too many people spend way too much time and energy and what purports to be intelligence thinking about this mismatch and what it all means. Another option is to slap yourself upside the head for being a bedwetter and move on with your life.
Some people do not accept the concept of gender identity and argue only biological sex can determine whether someone is a man or a woman.
Those are two different things though. You can perfectly well accept the concept of genner idenniny and still know that biological sex means man or woman.
It’s pitiful that the Beeb is willing to sign its name to this kind of claptrap.
But where did this term come from? When did it emerge? And what material thing does it point to, if anything?
Thetan is also a term used by some people — namely, Scientologists — to describe their sense of who they are.
Indigo Child is another term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.
I could pick out a thousand terms various cults use to describe their deeply felt inner sense of self. The whole fucking point of religion is that it gives people deep feelings about their inner selves. How does anyone not already know this?
Just because there’s a group of people who have a term for something they feel doesn’t mean that thing has any fucking credibility in the secular world.
It’s not so much that we don’t accept the concept but that we disagree about what the concept is, what it means, what it refers to. I don’t disbelieve that trans-identifiers believe they have a gender identity. I disbelieve that their sense of gender identity points to any kind of innate, material, natural kind of thing, and I certainly don’t believe that one’s sense of a gender identity points to an innate, material, natural thing that is so profound that I should be compelled to pretend I can’t see people’s biological sex because of it.
But wait, let me revisit that quote again:
There’s a smuggle going on in there. They’re not denying that people have biological sexes; they’re slyly insinuating that some people — i.e., good people — have been trained to act like they can’t see biological sex when they’re prompted to — i.e., when they’ve been cued about someone else’s beliefs about his or her gender identity. And some other people — bad, suspicious people, outsiders, boo hiss — haven’t learned the rules.
This isn’t about truth, it’s about social rules. In other words, it’s a new religion.
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