"Trans is a Religion" - YouTube Analysis

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I came across this video discussing the concept of gender identity being a modern form of religion and thought it might be interesting to some of the posters on FWR. I've often seen posters, myself included, discuss this idea and how the various world religions relate to it.

I've no idea who this man is but he describes himself as:

"...a struggling Catholic thinker, apologist, writer, speaker, and communication professional. I'm making video commentaries on topics I find interesting with a focus on culture, morality, and religion, informed by my experience as a practicing Catholic."

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https://x.com/MaudMaron/status/1801327636657910267

Quite a watch.

That is such petty and controlling behaviour. Why are they unable to listen to views that are counter to their own?

Protesting these days seems to be all about obnoxiousness and shutting down opponents rather than getting across differing ideas.

Do they have any ideas / views - other than removing boundaries and dominating women and children? It's why they turn their backs, hum, are disrespectful and frequently resort to threats and violence.
Becuase they have no intellectual and socially acceptable arguments for all this.

Hence their toddler like behaviour.

Good point. It’s hard to logically defend the ideological mishmash that is Genderism. Plus, they’ve been indoctrinated to believe that non-believers asking questions is akin to blasphemy and one step removed from genocide.

That video reminds me of when Nigel Farage and his lackies turned their backs during a European union meeting. It's actually embarrassing witnessing grown adults behave in this way. It is ignorance at its best and also unwillingness to listen to any other viewpoint. What utter toss pots.

This is the attack on the children that left one with a severed oesophagus that was mentioned in the video.

https://archive.is/WVdN6

That’s a great example of this type of behaviour! You’re absolutely right; ideologues make themselves look ridiculous by disrupting civil discussions and behaving rudely. Refusing to listen to, and discuss matters with, other people with different views is childish and gets society nowhere fast.

Bloody hell that is terrifying! I cannot understand why that man was released from custody after attacking CHILDREN with a knife!!

Sacred class.

It’s increasingly apparent that you’re correct - it seems to completely change the minds of judges and police officers as to whether or not that the person (mostly men) is a danger to society. Baffling!

Aside from anything else, referring to it as an ideological belief is handy for figuring out if someone is a hard-line believer. They tend to get very annoyed about it being described that way.

I couldn't find much to disagree with with the Catholic guy.

Me neither 🤷‍♀️

One of the things I appreciate about the GC alliance is learning about the wide range of opinions and views of the people involved. I don’t have to agree with everyone else and I prefer us not all thinking in lockstep about everything.

I'm in lockstep with you about that!

Thanks for sharing OP.

Great video. When I think back to the early days of me trying to get my head around the subject of gender identity, I kept getting baffled by phrases that didn't make sense to me e.g. "assigned male at birth".

It was a massive turning point for me when I realised (largely thanks to MN) that what I was feeling was a lack of belief in the idea that everyone had a gender identity.

I feel plenty of other things as well e.g. anger that children are being pulled towards this belief and taught about it in schools as if it's fact, that (transwo)men can identify into women's sports and spaces (and anyone who says no is a "bigot"), but fundamentally, I simply don't believe in it.

Obviously there are people who do, some of whom call themselves trans people. It's tedious that me "denying the existence of gender identity" is reframed as denying the existence of trans people - I "deny the existence of god" (or, as I prefer to say, I don't believe in god) but nobody reframes that as me denying the existence of Christians.

I'm not suggesting I'm right** that there is no god and no gender identity. I just don't want any of it positioned in law, health, education, workplaces etc as fact and for me to be forced or emotionally coerced to use tenets of belief that I don't hold. Thankfully Christians stopped doing this in the UK some time ago and I'll no longer be ostracised or attacked for saying I don't believe or sitting quietly during a prayer (without joining in, with my eyes open) if I'm at a wedding/funeral in a church. It's time for genderists to do the same - including the ones that don't actually believe in it either and simply use it as A Good Plan to access women's sports and spaces - and stop forcing and/or emotionally coercing people to use compelled speech, like preferred pronouns.

** obviously I think I am 😁 But there's little point in me battling it out with either a Christian or a genderist in an attempt to come to an agreement on which of us is right. We won't achieve that and I fully accept that some people believe things that I don't. Thankfully, pretty much every Christian I've met feels the same way - I can only think of one occasion off the top of my head where someone told me that it was OK for me not to believe because god would wait for me and would welcome me with open arms when I was ready etc. I smiled politely and the conversation moved on to other things.

I am not crazy about the language of religious belief, it works and there is some truth to it, but much more I think that it's about something a little more basic, which is a kind of view about the nature of reality, the way the universe is put together.

Everyone has this, religious or not. A lot of the time it's unconscious - especially in people who are not religious in the traditional sense. Because if someone is a Catholic, say, they know that they have a system of ideas about what makes the world the way it is, how we know what's true, etc. that is different than many other peoples'.

For many secular people, they have learned about things like science and history at school, and often they have taken in a set of ideas about justice and progress, but they think these things are totally objective.

The people who go in for a kind of scientific positivist secular progressivism are a group like this. (it's not actually scientific, ftr, but they believe in science as the arbiter of truth, it's really pseudoscience in many cases.) That's the underlying belief set. The ethics they adopt as part of that are the social justice movement. Their religious practice is protest marches and pride festivals and Mother Mother concerts and gay straight alliance groups in schools, etc.