Gender denial

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Gender denial or gender denialism is the denial of the existence of biological genders (male and female) as espoused by left-wing political ideals. Influenced by psychoanalysis and critical theory, it is a component of political correctness.

History of gender denialism

The German Jewish psychologist and sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), who founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, is widely regarded as "the godfather" of present-day gender denialism, as well as the modern LGBT movement more generally.

Transgenderism

Since the 2000s, the increasingly politicized field of gender studies has been affected in complex ways by the rise of Transsexuals. These have increasingly been accused by their critics of "contaminating" or "polluting" the dating or marriage pool of prospective partners, by concealing their identity as transsexuals to gain sexual partners. Man-to-woman transsexuals often attempt to date men while pretending to be biological women,[1][2] a major cause of the violence perpetrated against them.[3] This criticism applies even more strongly to the dating pools of dating sites. The social effects are thought to be out of proportion to the low percentage of transsexuals. Most transsexuals are still believed to be relatively open about their reassignment, however, and both gender theorists and their critics acknowledge transsexuals' sincerity to appear as members of the opposite sex.

Gender fluidity

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Gender can also be broken into three categories, gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex, as Sam Killermann explains in his Ted X Talk at the University of Chicago.[4] Favored by the political left, these three categories are another way of breaking down gender into the different social, biological, and cultural constructions. These constructions focus on how femininity and masculinity are allegedly "fluid" entities, and how their meaning is able to fluctuate depending on the various constraints surrounding them.

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