Follow along:
So Trump has rescinded
Obama’s guidance on transgender
bathroom use.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Federal law prohibits sex discrimination in public schools. Last year, the Obama administration interpreted that to mean transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom or locker room of the gender that they identify with, and they put out federal guidance to schools to reflect that. Many conservatives saw it as federal overreach.
This “overreach” led
to this:
SEAN SPICER: The president's [sic] made it clear throughout the campaign that he's a firm believer in states' rights and that certain issues like this are not best dealt with at the federal level.
Later in the interview
I latched on to this:
MARTIN: At the same time, you know, when this guidance came down, there were these charges of federal overreach and especially conservatives saying this is a moral issue and this is now the federal government telling me how to understand an issue that I think of in religious terms.
STOP.
This is interesting.
Think about this,
people view sex and gender in religious or moral terms. Fascinating.
Morality, be
definition, requires objective truths. I was taught that objective in this sense
means that x is true no matter what
people think or say or do. Think 2+2=4 but for moral statements.
Now the indicting of
religious terms here clearly means that these truths come from god.
Circling back, we are
to believe that sex and gender are handed down from god. Binary.
Remember from above
… transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom or locker room of the gender that they identify with…
Identify with? Your
sex and your gender are handed down to you and god doesn’t make mistakes.
Thesis: This
completely ignores the fact that we are psychological beings. Because humans
are psychological beings, sex and gender are identified with…and malleable…and
influenced…and AMORAL.
I have fun with this
in my psych class via this Louis CK bit about starving.
Humans have a terrific
set of homeostatic mechanisms (i.e., physiological [god given]) to balance
eating and weight but…psychology factors in and people become overweight and obese
and morbidly obese.
Why aren’t the god
given mechanisms enough? Why do we become obese to the point of unhealthy?
Especially if we aren’t
psychological beings subject to influence?
Maybe the question is:
why is psychology a factor for weight gain but not for gender identity?
Do you know of a good argument for the denial of our psychological selves?
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