Learn the 74 gender identities
Forget your biological plumbing, gender is now a spectrum
“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Did you know that if you “identify” as male or female, you are ignoring 72 additional “gender identities”?
In an article published at Medicine Net after being “medically reviewed” by two MDs in February 2024, it is announced that:
“Gender is no [longer] regarded as a binary concept where one can either be a male or a female. It has emerged as a continuum or spectrum where one can identify as any of the gender identities. The idea is to make everyone feel comfortable in their skin irrespective of what gender they were assigned at birth.”
Among my favorite genders to have “emerged” are:
Abimegender: Associated with being profound, deep, and infinite.
Colorgender: In this category, colors are used to describe gender, for example, pink gender or black gender.
Condigender: The person feels their gender only under specific circumstances.
Esspigender: The individual relates their gender identity with spirits.
Genderfuzz: More than one gender is blurred together.
Mirrorgender: Changing one's gender type based on the people surrounding.
I hope this handy guide helps you find your own emerging gender niche, but the article in which they are listed does not discuss whether any of these identities require gender affirming surgery.
The authors note that from eight years to teenage, “Some children will experience a gender crisis…” and “…begin to feel that they are different from the person they were identified to be at birth.” At this point, they “may start to question their gender.”
Irrespective of age, once a person begins to “question their gender,” the available life options get complicated.
WHAT TO DO?
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) issued a set of guidelines for “gender affirming care” in May 2023, based on a study sponsored by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
The JAMA study concluded that “a letter of assessment from a member of a multidisciplinary team” should be required before starting treatment and that “At least 6 months of exogenous hormone therapy before gender-affirming surgery is optimal, but not mandatory.”
JAMA refers to “gender-affirming medical and/or surgical treatment” as GAMST and notes that.
Children and adolescents require a multidisciplinary approach, which considers developmental stage, neurocognitive function, language skills; offers mental health support; discusses risks and benefits of social transition; and includes parental/guardian involvement in GAMST in almost all situations. [Emphasis added.]
The medical providers who offer these kinds of specialized treatments and surgeries are bullish about what they see as an emerging market with enormous upside potential.
A survey by The Insight Partners consultancy in 2023 estimated that the global market for “Sex Reassignment Surgery is estimated to grow from USD 2.90 billion in 2022 to USD 6.26 billion by 2030 [with] a CAGR [compound annual growth rate] of 10.1% from 2022–2030.”
BY THE NUMBERS
The percentage of people worldwide who identify as gay, lesbian, transgender, gender fluid, non-binary or other alternative sexual orientations is estimated to be 3%. In the US, it is 2%.
Worldwide, some studies indicate that more than half of millennials believe “that gender exists on a spectrum and should not be limited to male and female categories,” suggesting there may be a strong generational component to gender fluidity.
For as long as I can remember, I have had gay, lesbian, trans and bisexual friends. But over the past 5 to 10 years, I have noticed a shift in their identities from individual to groups. For example, at dinner a few months ago, a lesbian friend worried out loud that something she had said might be offensive to the “trans community.” But who is the “trans community”?
The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles estimated in June 2022, that “Among U.S. adults, about 1.3 million people identify as transgender.” They calculated that this is equal to .005 (1/2 of 1%) of the US population. The statistics are similar worldwide.
An acknowledgment of diverse sexual identities that have been suppressed for far too long is a healthy development, but in its current manifestation in the West, it also masks a sense of disproportion that risks warping crucial social and political priorities.
Trans individuals obviously deserve the same rights as everyone else. In recent polls, about 65% of US adults support trans rights. So do I. However, these same polls also indicate that 61% say trans issues have either “gone too far” or “far enough.”
I think what the respondents to these polls are saying is that coordinated efforts by government and global corporations to prioritize trans issues or gender fluidity in the name of DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) ahead of issues with potential life or death civilizational consequences (Nuclear war, immigration, genetic engineering, AI, et. al.) is a distortion of policy priorities and a disservice to the genuine importance of diversity.
At some point, our common humanity and the fate of three millennia of tenuous moral progress as humans becomes more important than arguing over gender identities. Our sensitivity to diversity needs to be contextualized within a larger civilizational framework, or we will lose it all.
WHOSE AGENDA IS THIS?
Simone de Beauvoir was a fierce feminist, but she was also a politically astute existential philosopher who said, “To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”
Exploring one’s gender identity does not give any individual existential or moral carte blanche, especially when the exploration of gender is being expropriated, distorted and exploited for profit by a globalized, authoritarian medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex so glaringly on display during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Today’s medical-pharma complex is a direct reflection of a new ideology of transnational authoritarianism predicated on instilling a politically debilitating sense of permanent crisis and mass confusion, what Bernard Henri Lévy calls “psychotic delirium.”
Hannah Arendt noted nearly seventy years ago:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
Be open, but don’t be foolish. The common enemy of each of us and the civilization of which we are part is not thwarted gender identity, but those who would rob us of our common humanity through “division, infantilization and a loss of mythos.”
Imagine, for example, the malignantly infantilized and misdirected energy on display in the video below being educated to maturity and directed against our common enemies rather than one another.
The choice is ours. The time is now.