Thinking caps

The impetus to paint gender variance as sexual deviance is easy enough to understand. In fact, most of the advocates for it in recent times have been self hating boomers who grew up under the specter of religion and a society that saw them as outcasts. It wasn't a far stretch then to assume that they would have been amenable to seeing all manner of deviation from a norm as dysfunction and perversion instead of expected statistical deviation.

Interestingly, back at their turn of  the 20th century, Magnus Herschfeld was a gay man and yet he had escaped social stigma while keeping his intellectual curiosity intact and tending to patients like Lili Elbe.

Even a rudimentary look at all biological processes gives us our answer for there is not one which is untouched by anomalies and permutations. Knowing that some people are born with ambiguous genitalia and genetic anomalies like androgen insensitivity syndrome, it is not a far stretch to get to gender identity being also subject to variations. But for some highly motivated groups, allowing these ideas destroys their fundamental belief systems and they will fight tooth and nail against them. If necessary they will even concoct pseudoscience to state their case and feed it like red meat to their disciples. Sound familiar?

By now I am too old to believe that that the world fully operates on honesty and a search for truth but often on a multitude of agendas. All the more reason then to keep our thinking caps on.