Say ‘Sex’ Not ‘Gender’ – Part 1

Nothing is more distorted from the truth these days and also attacking children in unprecedented numbers than the craze of so-called transgenderism. “Transgenderism” is not only about mentally confused people playing pretend, but it’s also about demanding the world play along. Sadly, too many adults have become manipulated or intimidated and won’t tell the truth and point out all the elephants in the room – namely, that “transgenderism” isn’t real, “gender identity” is a fake concept, and “sex change” is impossible.

It is a scientific fact that human beings are either male or female and thus that there are only two sexes. The exception is a small minority of human beings (0.018 percent of the population) who are born with physical disorders in which their observable sexual characteristics (e.g. a penis) do not develop in accord with their male or female chromosomes. The fact is there are only two sexes, determined at conception and matter-of-factly acknowledged at birth, as opposed to the current lie that sex is “assigned at birth.” Up until the 21st Century, 99% of humans agreed with this reality. But today’s popular culture – i.e., all of the entertainment industry, most of the news media and social media, the public educational system, and a large portion of big businesses’ marketing – decided to make a 180-degrees turn in recent years and reject reality.

Unlike sex, so-called gender identity is neither scientifically observable nor testable. The gender identity fad has become a faux-religious belief and both a social and political construct, which has a small percentage of people claiming to have irrational feelings and everyone else forced to believe there is truth in those feelings. There is no other sphere of human life where it is held that another person’s delusional self-perception must be accepted unquestioningly as real.

“Gender” used to solely refer to nouns in language. For example, in English, the word ‘boy’ is a masculine gender, so in a sentence it would read – “Has the boy finished HIS chores?” Many countries’ languages assign male, female, or neutered genders to their nouns, such as in German, nouns that end in -heit will be feminine, and in Spanish, most masculine words end with –o.

However, in recent generations, the word “gender” moved from the grammar lessons to the sex-ed lessons, and “gender” started replacing the word “sex.” This was in part done because some people felt more comfortable saying the g-word than the s-word, in part done because “sex” was becoming so tied to exclusively referring to “sexual acts,” and in part done because, unlike scientifically-proven “sex,” “gender” can be propagandized and manipulated to serve people’s preferences.

What cannot be manipulated is the word “sex.” There are two types of sex – men and women. They cannot change into the other. Conversely, the word “gender” when used outside of language/grammar is a state of mind, not a state of being. It is a set of personality beliefs and an ideological fantasy. This is why we should stop using the word “gender” when discussing humans. Words have a gender, but people have a sex. Whereas there are three genders in grammar – masculine, feminine, and neuter – there are two sexes in biology – male and female.

During his inauguration speech in the U.S. Capitol on January 20, President Donald Trump said:

“I will end the government policy to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders [sic]: male and female.”  

I attached the word ‘sic’ to Trump’s quote because it contains an error. Knowing that gender is a linguistic construction while sex is biological, the newly-sworn-in president made a mistake in his speech in saying “genders” instead of “sexes.” But I’ll forgive him for this since his executive order – named “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” – does indeed accurately explain that it will now be “the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes: male and female. These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”

Trump’s new directive also states that “‘sex’ shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female…(and) is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of ‘gender identity’.” How refreshing to restore sanity to how the federal government will resume interpreting laws and conducting business as it returns to following what has always been known – that there is a biological reality of only two sexes, with male and female clearly being identifiable and definable.

The executive order goes on to note that “when the government fails to recognize the truth and treat self-identification as more important than biological sex, people no longer trust their government. They can no longer understand the words that their government is using, no longer trust the policies that their government is issuing.” Thus, this directive will remove from federal communications, policies, and documents/forms any reference to radical gender ideology.

Additionally, President Trump’s order contains much welcomed and needed instructions and directives such as:

• Government agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination. 
• Every agency and all Federal employees will use the term “sex” instead of “gender,” and government identification like passports and personnel records will reflect biological reality and not self-assessed gender identity.  
• Taxpayer funds will no longer be used for so-called gender-transition health care and the practice of housing men in women’s prisons and taxpayer funded “transition” for male prisoners will end. 
• The forced recitation of “preferred pronouns” will stop, with Americans’ First Amendment rights protected to recognize the biological and binary nature of sex in federal institutions and public schools. 

The so-called transgender movement has brainwashed, coerced, and/or threatened much of society to go along with their detachment from reality, ala what happened to the people in the tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Fortunately, the new administration in the White House appears to be willing to attempt to put an end to all this fraud and nonsense that has creeped into the culture in recent years.

Unfortunately, the executive order does not mention one of the most horrific areas of transgender activism – so-called gender-affirming care for minors. There still needs to be a national call for stopping mentally-confused adolescents from being put on puberty-blocking drugs and given mutilating surgeries.

It has always been natural for teens and preteens during puberty to seek affirmation, identify, and attention due to raging hormones and puzzled attempts to understand their lives. However, it is not rational how in our current society these kids are being indoctrinated to believe their questions on their identity can be answered by supposing they were assigned the wrong sex at birth, that they are a different “gender” than the one God gave them, and that they can expect others to refer to them by their opposite/incorrect pronouns. 

It is disheartening that so many children are being allured to consider transgenderism as they are undergoing the common psychological stress associated with puberty, and it is downright evil that ultra-progressive parents and immoral medical professionals are enabling boys and girls to believe their dysphoria is real, to the point of drugging and/or mutilating them. 

In Part 2 of “Say ‘Sex’ Not ‘Gender’,” I will explain how it is misplaced-compassion, not authentic compassion, for society to capitulate to the delusion that one can change one’s sex, and I will address what parents can do to make sure their children do not fall for the propaganda regarding so-called transgenderism.