Originally a comment by Acolyte of Sagan on More in the spirit of Mao than of Mill.

In regards to education around trans “rights”, I’ve sometimes thought that a good start to getting people to see gender ideology for what it is would be to get them to examine and understand the following concepts:

Understanding the concepts would be useful, but I believe that an understanding of where and how the modern concept of transgender actually began would explain so much about why the ideology is such a confused and confusing mess.

So far as I can tell, it started in the late 1990s as a purely philosophical idea centred on a post-modernist ‘no absolute truths’ view of sex and gender – I think I am therefore I am, if you will. From there it was taken up by the social sciences and expanded by such writers as the high priestess of gender ideology, Judith Butler, whose writing rivalled that of the greatest of theologians insomuch as it said very little, proved even less, but did so in such dense, impenetrable prose that it baffled the reader into submission: uncertain as to whether they were reading genius or bullshit, too many erred on the side of genius.

Believing that they had understood what in reality was intentionally unfathomable, the new converts began teaching that gender was more than a social construct, it was at the core of one’s very existence, and suddenly a new generation of students had their heads filled with what they thought was a stunning new insight into the human condition. Those students went on to spread the word to the wider world, and here we are, fighting a muddle-headed ideology based on nothing more than a flawed philosophy that should have been contained within academia but escaped to mutate and cause havoc.