Gender is genetic. Just like skin color, eye color, left-handedness and disposition for diabetes. This is a scientific fact.

Some people will bully, harass and even kill people because of their genetic make-up. This is also a scientific fact.

Because of the later society and government has created laws that protect its members from bullying, harassment and killing. Those laws are called “anti-discrimination laws”. The majority of civilized societies agree that such laws are needed, because some people cannot be trusted to refrain from subjecting others to bullying, harassment and murder because of the genetic make-up of those “others”.

“The lawsuits contest the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education, to include “gender identity””

 Anti-discrimination laws must naturally evolve and be amended as our understanding of the human condition and what it means to be human evolves and broadens. This is evidenced by the fact that anti-discrimination laws have been added to the fabric of legislation through history to the present. Women, POC, Disabled, Homosexuals and so on (not nessecarily in that order). Now we know, through scientific and empirical evidence, that gender is not limited to a binary system defined by outer physical determinants (physical sex, appearance and genitalia).

It is then only natural that our anti-discrimination laws be amended to reflect this knowledge and understanding.

This has nothing to do with “ideology” as such. The only ideological category, that the prohibition against discrimination based on gender identity promotes, is the ideology of protecting children from discrimination, bullying, harassment and possibly murder, in school.

Source: The Hill

I am reading “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” – the book that outlines and specifies Project 2025. To fight your enemy you have to know your enemy.

“Ultimately, the Left does not believe that all men are created equal—they think they are special. They certainly don’t think all people have an unalienable right to pursue the good life. They think only they themselves have such a right along with a moral responsibility to make decisions for everyone else. They don’t think any citizen, state, business, church, or charity should be allowed any freedom until they first bend the knee.” ( Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise page 16).

This is a projection if I ever saw one. (Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings or opinions onto a different person, animal, or object.)

The current Republican party, its christian nationalist and white supremacy cohorts (including MAGA and DJ Trump) do not believe all Americans are equal. They believe that only white christians are equal. And that some of them are more equal than others – the president for instance.

This becomes clear as I read.

“The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensi-tive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.” (Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise page 4-5).

See what they say they will do? They want to erase every bit of progress that has been made in American legislation and society since President Woodrow Wilson (Presidential term: March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921). In the end, when they are done, any person who does not align with a cis-heterosexual, christian nationalist stereotype will either be, if not physically eradicated, then legally, socially and politically eradicated.

Their goal is to make America into an all white, all straight and all christian nation.

Yes, this Republican, christian nationalist, white supremacy manifesto is 900+ pages long, but as I said in the beginning: To fight your enemy. you have to know your enemy.

Download and read it:

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise

I do not often agree with Xians. But I do agree with John Pavlovitz. On many things. But this stood out this morning: The Fraudulence of ‘Pro-life, Christians’ Bullies

It is true what he says:

“If only these teenagers had stayed there in the womb: they’d be safe from the pro-life Christians.
There, they’d still be beautiful. There, they’d still be worth defending. There’ they’d still be sacred.”

The entire blog-post is so spot on I am speechless – and happy – finally a Xian who stands up to those bullies, those life-hating, war-mongering, gun-worshiping and fraudulent Xians, whose only positive concern is for those who agree with them.

Some of you know that I was once an evangelical Xian, albeit in Sweden and during the late 70’s, 80’s and early 90s, but I was just like those Evangelical Xians John speaks of. Fundamentalist, arrogant, life-hating and aggressive towards those who did not agree with me.

Given my personal experiences – which I will share about elsewhere – I think I can say with certainty that out-side a cataclysmic, personal and profound life-crisis, nothing will get through to the majority of them.

Why? Because at the core of their belief lies FEAR. However much they profess to be absolutely certain that G-d loves them, they do not really believe that. They believe that any little step, even in thought, out-side the narrow version of Xianism they are given by their pastors, will end them in hell with the rest of us.

They don’t trust G-d to be kind, gentle, forgiving, compassionate and present, much because they have split G-d in three. G-d the Father, whom they equate with a distorted understanding of the G-d of Israel – angry, hateful, vengeful and quick to anger and punishment; G-d the Son, whom they see as their Suffering Savior, constantly, desperately averting the impending doom and Wrath of G-d, and G-d the Spirit, whom they are taught is so fickle and sensitive, that just a mispoken word can rip said spirit out of their lives permanently. No wonder they have to be aggressive, fundamentalist, hateful and self-serving. They have no safety in G-d.

So all we, or rather Xians like John Pavlovitz, can do is try and catch the ones like me and give them a community that is not, 1. Fundamentalist, 2. Arrogant and 3. Self-serving.

I hope John gets through to some of them.

there are, by orders of magnitude, more neurotypical people than neurodifferent people in the world. when one considers the amount of discourse happening around the neurodifferent experience, due to sheer numbers, a neurotypical understanding of “neurodifferent issues” is dominant in our society today. this dynamic ensures that the dominant “neurodifferent” narrative is also a false narrative that is repeated, analyzed, and criticized ad nauseum by a largely neurotypical audience, reinforcing the validity of this dominant (and factually inaccurate) “neurodifferent” narrative. when neurodifferent people protest the propagation of the dominant (and factually inaccurate) “neurodifferent” narrative about the neurodifferent experience, neurodifferent people are told that we are stifling free speech, that we are snowflakes, or that we just need to learn to perform better public “debates.” when neurodifferent activists express anger, resentment, and/or frustration with this dynamic, neurotypical people can respond with their own anger, resentment, and/or frustration because a lot of neurotypical people have already invested more time and attention into trying to understand the dominant (and factually inaccurate) “neurodifferent” narrative than they ever wanted to in the first place and come to perceive neurodifferent activists as pushy, bossy, and unreasonable.
resolving these misunderstandings in the face of an army of trolls who traffic misinformation, civic leaders who attempt to pass anti-neurodifferent laws, and neurotypical anger, resentment, and/or frustration while also trying to support equality for neurotypical, neurodifferent, is the primary purpose of neurodifferent advocacy today.

this is so spot on.

when neurotypicals speak on neurodifferent issues, they are not speaking for us. they are speaking for their understanding of neurodifferent issues and they are speaking from inside their privilege. they cannot speak for us. it does not matter how well-meaning, well-informed/well-educated or sensitive they are – they are not qualified to speak on neurodifferent issues. that they do, despite their inherent incompetence, is nothing but them using their neurotypical privilege. any organization or educational body that is not run by or directed by neurodifferent people is automatically dominating the neurodifferent narrative are and violating neurodifferent people and their lives.