What you are basically saying
The last 30 seconds or so are illuminating (in a narrow sense of illuminating).
What you’re basically saying is that transgender identities don’t exist, so that somebody who has a penis and testicles can’t identify as a woman – and – I mean – where does that come from, where do you find that view – because there are millions, millions, of transgender women living in the world – there’s something like, in one count, up to eight million transgender people living in the US – but yet you’re saying it’s impossible that somebody who has a penis identifies as female – I mean [flailing] uh er how do you get to wipe out a whole section of the population by saying transgender identity can’t. be. real.
But of course she has it all confused. He’s not saying “somebody who has a penis and testicles can’t identify as a woman” – that gets it precisely wrong. Of course anybody can “identify as” anything. The point is, identifying as does not make it true. I can identify as a King County Metro bus transfer, but that doesn’t make me a King County Metro bus transfer.
People can think whatever they want, but that doesn’t mean whatever they think is true.
Men can identify as women, dress up as women according to their lights, call themselves women, imagine they are women, look in the mirror and say “woman” – but none of that makes them women. Neither does anything else.
Webberley is saying that not believing deluded people’s wild claims about themselves=wiping those people out. Well it doesn’t. The people remain. We don’t have to buy into their delusions to keep them from floating away on the breeze.
I knew a guy who believed he was Jesus Christ – strangely, he continued to exist after I refused to accept this belief.
I just long for a world in which people understand the difference between femininity as perception based on rigid role structure, and being female. I don’t know where the wheels came off on this, but man, it’s now unfathomable to otherwise intelligent people.
How can she possibly not get this? Is she playing dumb?
As weird as it is, I get it that people under the age of 25 can not understand the difference between “identifies as a woman” and “is female”. They’ve been bombarded with intentionally confusing messages since approximately age ten. But how can older people not get it?
Thus, darkness descends.
I’ve never met anyone who identified as a King County Metro bus transfer, or as a giraffe, etc. However, in the 1950s, when my mother was in her 40s, it was reasonably common for women to be 39 years old for ten or fifteen years. I don’t know if that still happens. I wonder if a 45 year old woman wanted to enter a competition, such as a literary competition, that was open to women under 40 and claimed she was eligible because she identified as being 39, would anyone take her seriously or would she be laughed out of court?
By this logic, gender affirming care “wipes out” dysphoric people. Would that make Webberley guilty of genocide?
“Identifying as an age” is definitely a thing. But in the news in the past few years I think I’ve seen it only among men.
Emile Ratelband
Stefoknee Walsch
In the past, and maybe even today, it was often used either to get into military service or to avoid it.