It's perfectly fair to talk bout this issues but I'll challenge a couple of those points:
- I overwhelmingly doubt the notion of some material group of 'fake transgender' people, fully going through transistion, and then 'overacting' their gender as some kind of evidence that they are under 'transgender delusion'.
It's frankly an outrageous statement - even though I'm sure you're just ruminating and don't mean ill - it's almost offensively uninformed.
If you spend 1 hour with a few trans people, that view would be dispelled pretty quickly.
- 'Transgender Delusion' is akin to saying 'gay delusion' and while there should be some space for 'straight talk' to the extent these things may exist, you can imagine what kind of reaction you'd get for calling people who self-identify as gay as 'just deluded'.
- Also problematic in your statement is the notion that 'trans' is a binary thing, often it's not. It's not M->F and F->M with people 'flipping' into other socially normative appearances and behaviours. It's everything in between.
- All of that said, I think it is fair to posit that because gender is softer issue int that most of us have probably more in common than separates by gender, and that it's clearly a bit of a spectrum ... some people have do have 'problems' with their gender identity, and though may not be 'deluded' ... definitely have issues with nailing it down. Combined with the assertive push for protecting identity expression, I think people revel in their confusion. Labels like 'genderqueer' make me think this is a possibility.
- There is a political aspect to this as much as people don't want their to be, and it's really easy for people to assume a 'moniker' as part of their public identity that really isn't part of their core identity. For example, there were agender people in the past of various kinds, more of a creative or artistic statement to 'reject' the notion of gender, less so a material identity.
- Multiple personality 'disorder' is outside the spectrum of gender etc. and the author is a bit off to make it so overtly political, but he's not wrong to point out that we have serious issues in culture with anything that speaks to the level of 'identity'.
- I overwhelmingly doubt the notion of some material group of 'fake transgender' people, fully going through transistion, and then 'overacting' their gender as some kind of evidence that they are under 'transgender delusion'.
It's frankly an outrageous statement - even though I'm sure you're just ruminating and don't mean ill - it's almost offensively uninformed.
If you spend 1 hour with a few trans people, that view would be dispelled pretty quickly.
- 'Transgender Delusion' is akin to saying 'gay delusion' and while there should be some space for 'straight talk' to the extent these things may exist, you can imagine what kind of reaction you'd get for calling people who self-identify as gay as 'just deluded'.
- Also problematic in your statement is the notion that 'trans' is a binary thing, often it's not. It's not M->F and F->M with people 'flipping' into other socially normative appearances and behaviours. It's everything in between.
- All of that said, I think it is fair to posit that because gender is softer issue int that most of us have probably more in common than separates by gender, and that it's clearly a bit of a spectrum ... some people have do have 'problems' with their gender identity, and though may not be 'deluded' ... definitely have issues with nailing it down. Combined with the assertive push for protecting identity expression, I think people revel in their confusion. Labels like 'genderqueer' make me think this is a possibility.
- There is a political aspect to this as much as people don't want their to be, and it's really easy for people to assume a 'moniker' as part of their public identity that really isn't part of their core identity. For example, there were agender people in the past of various kinds, more of a creative or artistic statement to 'reject' the notion of gender, less so a material identity.
- Multiple personality 'disorder' is outside the spectrum of gender etc. and the author is a bit off to make it so overtly political, but he's not wrong to point out that we have serious issues in culture with anything that speaks to the level of 'identity'.