10 November 2017

Human beings are either male or female.

Human beings are either male of female. This is a fact of human life due to the biological characteristics of the human species.
There are negligibly few - if any - real exceptions to this reality in our own species or other animal species.
How have we come to the ridiculous situation where we are starting to deny this reality in our society and in our political culture?

Scotland to legislate for "third gender"

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/scotland-set-create-legally-recognised-third-gender/


It is unfortunate that one of the intellectual origins of this kind of nonsense is possibly in the philosophy of existentialism - a philosophy which I have a lot of time for.

I believe that Simone De Beauvoir's statement that "one is not born, but rather becomes a woman" is, on a basic level, clearly mistaken.

I believe in human freedom, but there are some things that are incontrovertible realities. Biological sex is one of these incontrovertible realities.

Individual human rights are a good thing and ideals in which I thoroughly believe. But biological realities cannot be changed.