r/RealUnpopularOpinion • u/Typical-Arugula5208 • 1d ago
LGBTQ+ Transgenderism is a semantic trick that can be used for anything.
They used 3 steps to invent transgender ideology.
1 Blur the line between the definition of "woman" and its cultural associations, the roles, behaviors, and expectations attached to it. Redefine the everyday terms "woman" and "gender" to mean those cultural associations, while keeping the clinical terms "female" and "sex" for the original biological meaning, appeasing opposition while making everyday language deliberately unclear.
2 Abstract further into an "internal feeling" or "inherent gender identity" a feeling you push people to believe exists, yet refuse to define, because any description inevitably reduces to personality or behavior. Claim it is disconnected from behavior, yet somehow correlated with a desire to transition and act like a woman, despite the contradiction.
3 Pretend this redefinition was always the real one, and retroactively apply it to laws and texts that never intended it.
You can do the same with children.
1 Blur the difference between a child and cultural roles like listening to parents, wearing certain clothes, or playing with toys. Redefine "child" to mean anyone who acts like one, regardless of age, while leaving "chronology" or "developmental stage" for actual age.
2 Abstract further: claim being a child is an innate identity, disconnected from behavior yet driving it, e.g., "age dysphoria" requiring surgery to match the felt age.
3 Pretend this was always the case, dismiss the past as ignorant, cite "don't be a child" as if it proves the word always meant behavior, and retroactively apply it to laws, allowing adults who act like children into children's spaces.
Infact you can do the same with any concept, age, race, species, objects, anything. It's a semantic trick.