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"Obsession with gender identity goes too far -Times article"

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TimeLady · 02/08/2018 06:59

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/obsession-with-gender-identity-goes-too-far-vjcr30g8t

by Nigel Biggar, regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at the University of Oxford

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Iused2BanOptimist · 02/08/2018 07:51

Yup. I think that just about sums it up. Why should we care? What does it achieve?

Dragoncake · 02/08/2018 07:49

Fantastic. So clear.

NaturalBornWoman · 02/08/2018 07:37

Bloody fantastic piece!

MrsBodger · 02/08/2018 07:27

What a great piece of writing!

TimeLady · 02/08/2018 07:24

Thanks Igneococcus. I thought my original link was shareable, but maybe not!

Very succinct article from a GC view:

...But what I don’t get is the demand that society should reform its language, its census forms, its lavatories, and its sleeping arrangements around an ever-growing taxonomy of genders, which takes its bearings from stereotypes that have long been discredited, and either says nothing new or vanishes into private obscurity.

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missedith01 · 02/08/2018 07:23

"The strength of felt attachment alone can’t endow it with value."

Quite.

SnuggyBuggy · 02/08/2018 07:04

The whole non-binary just feels a bit "special snowflake" to me. I mean no one fits every bit of male or female gender stereotyping and they just get on with life.