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0 pointsryandv7mo ago0 comments

> It's about feeling.

This is equally unscientific.

> If you declare that unscientific you can throw out the entire psychological/psychiatric sciences.

May as well, given the catastrophe that is the replication crisis [2]. Besides, psychology has grown divorced from its roots, which are found in religion as a proto-psychology of mind (which is the modern term for what would have classically been known as "the soul"). You can further investigate the correspondences between religion, mysticism, and psychology in Jung's "Psychology and Alchemy."

> Gender identity has always existed.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so far there is no evidentiary basis for the "gender identity" in the body; some would even say that there cannot be a biological basis of gender, for this "holds the societal acceptance of transgenderism hostage to a biological account of sex-gender." [0]

Absent any biological or physical evidence I can only surmise that "gender identities" either do not exist, or are metaphysical; and to the scientifically-minded, these two statements are functionally equivalent.

In fact, I could even just as easily say "souls have always existed."

The paper [0] even continues on to state, essentially, that gender is an "intersubjectival" reality, which, ironically, is defined in an Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion:

    Rejecting the notion that knowledge is purely
    empirical and cumulative, Gergen has argued
    that “truth” is always value laden and, therefore
    (drawing from critical theory), “reality” is not
    immutable, but always is understood via interpre-
    tation [3].

A rejection of empiricism is tantamount to a rejection of science, which is based on the former; so perhaps it's not surprising after all that the philosophical basis for gender is actually a psychological/religious concept.

> as kids they are impressionable and can be indoctrinated. If people have no kids, there's no new religious minions being produced and thus the religion's survival probability is a bit affected.

Much of the LGBTQ+, almost by definition, cannot reproduce biologically and thus cannot have kids. Would you also claim that LGBTQ+'s survival probability, as a neo-religion complete with rebranded souls, is also affected? How does such an ideology reproduce, if not through indoctrination of children?

> But DEI is not affirmative action

At a layman's first glance this would appear to be the case from the SCOTUS syllabus:

    More broadly, it is becoming increasingly clear that
    discrimination on the basis of race—often packaged as “af-
    firmative action” or “equity” programs—are based on the
    benighted notion “that it is possible to tell when discrimi-
    nation helps, rather than hurts, racial minorities.” Fisher
    I, 570 U. S., at 328 (THOMAS, J., concurring). [1]

[0] https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/hypa.12327

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[3] https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/referenceworken...

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wkat42427mo ago

Feelings are important because they affect us. They can hurt just as much as the physical. It's a condition of the mind, not the 'soul'. That doesn't make it any less real for the person experiencing those feelings. The concept of a soul was invented, as some entity that survives after death. So that even people with nothing to lose in life could be forced to conform using the many threats religion makes to their 'afterlife'.

And LGBTIQ+ is not an ideology. People don't choose who they are attracted to. That's a conservative myth invented to make it seem like people are 'converted' to being gay or trans and that thus this could be prevented or reverted. There is no ideology nor agenda and it just is. We don't convert people. That's again a projection of something that religions do. They have agendas and conversion.

And I don't care about what the SCOTUS says. They are completely irrelevant where I live (and they should be in the US too as they are heavily politicised by the appointment process by the president).

ryandvOP7mo ago

> It's a condition of the mind, not the 'soul'.

As stated in my previous post these are classically synonyms that refer to the exact same entity. This use of language goes back to at least Descartes (translation by E. Haldane):

    to speak accurately I am not more than a thing which thinks,
    that is to say a mind or a soul, or an understanding, or a
    reason, which are terms whose significance was formerly
    unknown to me [0].

This use of the term "soul" even goes back to Plato and Socrates, who used the Greek term psyche to refer to this concept [1] [4]. I leave the remainder of the inference to you.

> LGBTIQ+ is not an ideology.

Why not?

> We don't convert people.

No, the LGBTQ+ just bifurcate the world into "allies" and "enemies". They mandate the use of neopronouns and neodemonyms, using letters not even in the alphabets of other languages, and try to correct perceived "gendered language" in languages that have no concept of gender in their grammar to begin with. People who refuse to prostrate themselves before your linguistic imperialism get cancelled and/or fired because they are obviously deplorable bigots.

Just look at how the LGBTQ+ was pushing "Filipinx" on people they have nothing to do with, an entire fucking ocean away, despite Tagalog already being ungendered and not having a letter X in its alphabet. [3]

There were a bunch of whites who came to the Philippines and then installed not one, but two (Spanish, English) languages in the populace, to the point where time is still told in Spanish to this day, and native Filipinos cannot even speak pure Tagalog any more, resorting now to a hybrid of Tagalog and English. [2]

Call them by any other name but those all look like instances of cultural imperialism and proselytization to me. Will whites ever learn? Or are they so blinded by their self-professed virtue and ~crosses~ pride flags that they think, certainly, that they are in the right, and all the homophobes and transphobes from all those other Conservative countries need to be enlightened to 21st century morals (those godless heathens)?

> And I don't care about what the SCOTUS says.

I'm running past my point of caring too, since all you do is write falsehood without citation.

[0] https://yale.learningu.org/download/041e9642-df02-4eed-a895-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(psychology)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLFoUTJuGU

[3] https://opinion.inquirer.net/133571/filipino-or-filipinx

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_theory_of_soul

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