Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Douglas Murray: 'Can a man be trans if he remains a man?'" video.

  1. If you extend the current logic of 'trans' in this instance then this makes perfect sense. Currently, being 'trans' means asking the world to accept something which it categorically knows not to be true ie usually that you're the opposite of what you were born as. Saying you're 'trans' whilst still remaining a fully intact male and still wishing to referred to as 'he' makes perfect sense in this Alice meets the Cheshire Cat context. 'Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it? There's only a contradiction if we apply the pre-existing, traditional, rigidly defined norms, not if we apply the new 'trans' norm which basically says you can be whatever you yourself want to be on any given day and you're perfectly at liberty to completely redefine yourself tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and so on. 'You' get to define (and redefine) what you are, nobody else ever does. Genius.
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  2.  Macavity You might not have noticed, but it seems to be preoccupying a lot of people.
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  3.  Macavity  If this comes down to a clash of a perception of reality then I think that my grasp on it is probably somewhat less tenuous than yours I'm afraid. Would that you were right and this stuff wasn't so high up the mass media agenda, both 'liberal' and right. It's not an echo chamber. There are far more important things which we should be talking about on that I would agree. Identity politics more generally is a scourge designed to accentuate differences not heal them.
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