Gender ideology plays linguistic games of at least 6 types. Spot & resist w/ clear, accurate language using non-circular words w/ plain meaning. Kids’ health is at stake; clarity & seriousness are more important than avoiding offense or signaling in-group status thru lingo: /1
Euphemism. Genderism sells well b/c it describes harsh, grave things in light, cheery words. Double mastectomy used to connote somber, empathetic life/death context of women battling cancer. Now “top surgery” has 40,000 girls on GoFundMe begging $$ for voluntary breast loss. /2
Neologisms. To con society into believing & basing policy on false propositions, genderism concocts new words that sound substantive & vaguely academic but can mean nothing or anything. Eg “Transgender” & “Nonbinary” have no real meaning yet have upended sex classifications. /3
Dissociative Words. These are made-up phrases (w/ the opposite goal of neologisms’ elasticity) used to convey genderism’s soul-body dualism (body parts are separate from personhood), w/ a bonus of degradation of women. For instance, “Cervix havers” or “people who menstruate”. /4
Inverted Words. Drawing on its Queer Theory origin, gender ideology relishes using words we’ve always used but ascribing the very opposite meaning. Eg, “women” now includes men, “gay” might now include opposite-sex attracted, “trans health care” means deliberate physical harm. /5
Borrowed Words. Genderism hides its religious nature behind some words taken from one context & injected w/ doctrine to sound factual. “Cisgender” isn’t a thing, but “it’s Latin for same side” (taken from chemistry) entrenches the only binary genderism worships: “Trans/Cis.” /6
GENDER. The word “gender” itself is used in several ways so is a conglomeration of genderism word games: borrowed word (stereotypes, from feminism); neologism (100s of “genders” eg demiflux); inverted word (a sex synonym but switched from objective fact to subjective feeling). /7
Plain language to counter genderism mostly comes back to “men” “women” & “sex” (not gender). Eg,
“Transgender people” = men & women
“Cisgender people” = men & women
“Non-binary people” = men & women
“Trans kids” = girls & boys
“Gender identity” = “feelings about one’s sex”
/end
“Transgender people” = men & women
“Cisgender people” = men & women
“Non-binary people” = men & women
“Trans kids” = girls & boys
“Gender identity” = “feelings about one’s sex”
/end
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