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DiscussionThe trans lobby jumped the shark with sex-denialism
I have been reading GC stuff for a few months. I mean... I've been asking questions in my friend groups etc for YEARS to try and make sense of my dissonance with aims of trans activists, but I literally didn't know there WAS a GC community because it's freakin hidden/not in the media and my google searches turned up only pro-trans material. Anyways...
I am convinced that if trans lobby groups did not engage in sex-denialism that there would be very little trans vs. feminism debate going on. The concept that sex is meaningless or mutable or a spectrum is where all the problems stem from. If you didn't have sex denialism, then there is no Lia Thomas racing against women at Penn, there is no admittance of a male sex offender into the Wii Spa women's changing room, there is no Fallon Fox fighting women, no "Veronica Ivy" winning women's cycling races, no "male lesbians," no "lesbians are sexual racists" or "genital fetishists, no painting pregnant women with a broad brush as "childbearing people." You wouldn't have ANY of this because it wouldn't be taboo to state "we can't have males (however they identify) entering women's spaces/competitions/sexuality categories etc."
The current brand of trans advocacy is so toxic and over-leveraged because it insists upon subverting one of the most basic facts of nature as it relates to humans--that we are sexually dimorphic. I can't imagine that trans advocacy can make much more headway before imploding somewhere because this fact of sexual dimorphism is Just. Too. Meaningful.
I actually find this to be a bummer because (I know opinions vary on here about this...) I don't have any real issue with trans-identified people. I am not "trans-exclusionary" as the term would make me out to be. I don't care if adults "transition" at some point, though I think there should be major hoops and long-term counseling required as it's serious and there are so many risks involved. I agree with Kathleen Stock that we perform a kind fiction when we refer to trans folks as anything other than their sex, but I am okay with that sort of fiction on an individual level.
I am actually primed to be a supporter of trans people, generally speaking (liberal, etc, blahblahblah...). I just cannot ever co-sign this sex-denialism bullshit. It is the tenet on which all the trouble starts. Without it, you just have "don't fire us from our jobs" or "give us single-stall restrooms!" These are pretty freaking reasonable goals that I can get behind. But with sex-denialism you have "anyone who says they are a woman is a woman" and all manner of problems that proceed from that very point.
I must admit, I am watching with bated breath to see how this all plays out. In the meantime, I am horrified for all the young women and men coming of age in the "gender generation" being sold such a crock of shit from their schools, their doctors, their healthcare institutions. WTF!
This won’t do anything, employees will just have to move them back to their designated sections.
Honestly the employees in my town dngaf. They aren’t paid enough to. So I doubt it.
No that’s not how retail works, it’s a function of their job to return merchandise to the proper areas. Especially in a huge corporate chain like Target. Managers are compelled to ensure employees have completed these types of tasks, it even becomes a part of employee evaluation which affects job security, raises and promotions. Have you ever worked in retail?