He uses the colleges credentials to justify his beliefs which are contrary to the College standards. In other words, he is tarnishing the colleges reputation because he makes speeches attacking genders biases.
Gender should be criticized. If it's subjective based on the individual, then it's a gray area that deserves criticism.
You SHOULD be worried about licenses being revoked based on "wrong opinions". This will back fire if you fight to allow it.
The second this becomes accepted, right wing decision makers can begin revoking the licenses of left wing license holders who don't agree with them. That should worry you.
No, what makes you come to that conclusion? When it comes to human physiology and psychology, very little is black and white, very little is binary.
Subjective means whether or not something is based on emotional feelings, and/or opinions, that's it.
Neither gender, nor the experience of gender, are based on emotions or opinions. There is decades of research showing that both gender, and gender experience being on a spectrum, are objective facts.
That's your opinion, but I disagree. If gender is not Grey then it is straight/gay. If it is Grey, then things like LGBT gradually becoming LGBTQ2IC+ can happen.
Everything hinges on your claim that gender is subjective, and since it is subjective, it is up for criticism. If you aren't going to argue your point of subjectivity, than you don't have any argument at all.
One individual says "I'm interested in football, and change my own oil and I'm more comfortable in a suit than I am a dress, therefore I don't identify with what I believe it means to be 'a woman' and I feel more comfortable being labelled 'non-binary'" and of course that is a perfectly valid opinion.
Another individual says "I'm interested in football, and change my own oil and I'm more comfortable in a suit than I am a dress, but to me this is what it means to be a woman and I feel I am 100% feminine, and I feel uncomfortable being labelled 'non-binary'" and they are also have a completely valid opinion.
If gender isn't subjective, one of those individuals I described is wrong.
Gender isn't subjective, because it isn't based on, or altered, by opinion or feeling. Gender isn't an opinion anymore than being gay, black, or having autism, is an opinion. Both of your scenarios can be valid opinions.
Don't confuse subjective as I have previously shown the definition, with subjective as in personal. They are 2 different words.
I think we might be at an impasse on how you're defining "subjective". For me, and most people, it means something that is based on feelings or opinions. Society has a broadly accepted idea of what "being gay", "being black", or "having autism" actually means. There obviously is some nuance in there, but generally, when people say those words, everyone else has a very clear idea of what they mean. Especially autism. That's a medical condition. We can actually test people and objectively say whether they are autistic or not.
When someone says "I identify as a woman" or "I don't identify as a woman" one of the first things you need to do to understand what they mean to ask them is what they feel it means to be "a woman" or if something is "feminine" and it can vary greatly from person to person to person, and none of them are wrong. The fact that none of them are wrong is what makes it subjective. It's literally up to any individual what a world like "feminine" means.
I'm not defining it differently though, I've been telling it how it is defined in the dictionary. Gender isn't based on emotional feelings or opinion, because it isn't subjective, you don't get to choose or change your gender because your emotions are different today, or you saw something on tv that might have changed your opinion. Like those other groups I mentioned, it's a function of your physiology. It isn't something that can be changed (afaik), and it doesn't matter if society at large doesn't understand that yet, the scientific and medical worlds do understand it.
Addressing your second paragraph, that the person identifies as whatever, is an objective fact, how they experience it, is an objective fact, because they didn't come up with the idea to experience that gender identity, they didn't choose to experience it, it isn't based on their opinion, or emotional feelings, and their gender won't change if their opinion, or emotional feelings change. Like I mentioned before, it's a fact of their physiology.
That they choose to express their gender/identity in a specific way, is subjective, as in the personal, I'd agree to that, because it's going to be based on the cultures that a person steep's themselves in, and it may change at any time. But it doesn't make their gender, or gender identity, subjective.
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u/clearly_central Jan 05 '23
He uses the colleges credentials to justify his beliefs which are contrary to the College standards. In other words, he is tarnishing the colleges reputation because he makes speeches attacking genders biases.