{"id":10673,"date":"2015-12-29T01:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T08:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2015-12-29T01:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T08:37:39","slug":"humpty-dumpty-goes-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/12\/29\/humpty-dumpty-goes-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpty Dumpty Goes Trans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Once upon a time, the word &#8220;gender&#8221; just meant &#8220;biological sex&#8221;.\u00a0 Then, looney tunes such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Reimer\" target=\"_blank\">John Money<\/a> had the bizarre idea that gender is just a &#8220;social construct&#8221;.\u00a0 However, because the obvious truth between a person&#8217;s legs could not be denied, the idea that &#8220;gender&#8221; and &#8220;biological sex&#8221; became two different things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, now that biological sex is itself being declared a social construct, the definitional distinction between &#8220;gender&#8221; and &#8220;biological sex&#8221;\u00a0 is no longer useful.\u00a0 Now, it would seem, those two terms will once again mean the same things, and that same thing is one of those &#8220;social constructs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, there is nothing like a bit of ret-conning history so as to make the creation of the distinction between &#8220;gender&#8221; and &#8220;biological sex&#8221; as an <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/JctVcH2\" target=\"_blank\">insidious plot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10674\" title=\"gender biological sex definitions\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gender-biological-sex-definitions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gender-biological-sex-definitions.jpg 640w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gender-biological-sex-definitions-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gender-biological-sex-definitions-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to these Social Justice Warriors, gender\/biological sex was <em>always<\/em> a social construct, if it existed at all, until some evil Kyriarch came along and tried to create an artificial distraction between &#8220;cis&#8221; and &#8220;trans&#8221; people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Gender&#8221; and &#8220;Biological Sex&#8221; mean either different things or the same thing, all depending on what the Social Justice Warriors want it to be, for they are the modern-day Humpty Dumpties of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Humpty Dumpty Goes Trans\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Once upon a time, the word 'gender' just meant 'biological sex'.  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