Getting things wrong

The fact that gender identity and expression confuses so many people is not surprising when it even confuses some gender variant people themselves into tangential discussions about who is authentic. There are so many iterations of it and, even if the percentage is not high compared to the overall population, it has nevertheless become notorious because today it is so highly visible.

Thirty years ago broadly you either had married men in secret clubs or transsexuals going stealth but today all shades of gender variance are on display and it forces the public to take notice making the conversation unavoidable.

Intelligent and thoughtful people are not all that perturbed by all this but the deeply afraid or the truly idiotic have turned this issue into obsessive fodder for their calling out that society is falling apart when in truth what was there all along has now simply become public. To have believed that we only ever had a perfect performative binary was to ignore the numerous permutations everywhere else in nature. How people saw themselves internally was never able to be displayed but now it was and what a huge uproar it caused.

Besides the different biological permutations of intersex conditions you have people who express themselves and identify outside rigid rules which were set for them before they were born. To assume that these rules would work perfectly for everyone was the critical mistake made. Yes, you could try and enforce them but it does not mean that they were natural.

I am constantly dismayed by the sheer stupidity on daily display in this world by people who have trouble thinking mostly because their fear gets in the way and not just on this issue.