A talk on transgenderism and where the social justice movement took it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMb2xafRMxU

Transgenderism is Ideology NOT Science! (Dr. Leonard Sax Uncut)  | Louder With Crowder -StevenCrowder, 2018-07-06

"2000+ years of men using differences between men and women to justify limiting opportunity for women. I get that. And so many of these modern social justice warriors feel that the only virtuous thing is to deny that there's any differences... the only way we're going to ensure equal opportunity for women is to insist that male and female are social constructs, people invent them, they can create them, change them any way they like, and that might fit a certain social justice warrior kind of worldview, but it happens to be false. It's not true."

"it seems as though a social agenda is driving in many ways science and medicine and not the other way around"

"20 years ago when a girl wanted to roll in the mud and wrestle a hog, that was fine. Now, the parents are asked, maybe your daughter is trans. Have you thought about transitioning her to the male role?"

"there's a lot of ways to be a boy or a girl. And the ironic results of social justice warriors is that ... they are ironically creating stereotypes. A girl who doesn't want to play with dolls, she must be trans : No she's not trans! There's more than one way to be a girl."

"it is asinine to me to argue that a child should be able to transition before they've reached the age of consent. So I can only consent sexually at 16. But I'm going to make a decision that permanently affects my sexual wellbeing and my sexual lifestyle by the time I'm 8 because chaz jennings had a show.."

.. and there's so much more on the core topic of transgenderism itself including how it can harm the natural expression of homosexuality, but these parts were important for me as they show the inter-connection from where the gender equality movement begins with noble intentions and how it then manifests into: 

1. Scores of little children having irreversible harmful operations and dangerous chemicals done on them playing havoc with their bodies with the assumption that screwing up somebody's hormones, preventing the natural onset of puberty in a human being's body isn't going to have any effect on the rest of the health., 

2. In law and civil discourse where it's led to mass and arbitrary censorship regimes that are entirely subject to the whims of the people at the helm and follow no proper rules or structures and have no grievance redress mechanisms, 

3. increased polarisation where anyone dissenting with the "noble" narratives is branded with some or the other "hatist" label, is painted by reputed institutions with large followings as a target for mob violence, and all chances for dialogue are shut down, 

4. enforced speech laws that can send people to prison for not simply not saying the approved things, 

5. and setting up of mechanisms, including all-encompassing digital kill-switches and AI programs that will attack whatever they're told to attack, for totalitarianism to come in and get entrenched, under the guise of social justice and declared noble intentions as any totalitarian in history ever has.

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So here's what I'm seeing:

2 extremes: 

Extreme A: There are extreme differences and the twain shall never meet

Extreme B: There are absolutely no differences

Ideas emerging from the middle : 

There are some differences and some similarities and some inter-changeabilities. Denying that those differences exist is as harmful to us as insisting that only the differences exist.

I'll put it in another way:

Insisting that there are no differences at all between men and women, harms women.