It seems to me that, here in America, we are losing our grasp on reality and the social cohesiveness that comes with it.
When your Society is finding it more difficult to define the sexes of your species even when using a biological basis, there is something askew with your Society's thinking. You can define yourself however you want but the rest of Society shouldn't be mandated to agree with your self-assessment, especially if you have to verbally inform others of how you identify. For instance, if you identify as a "they", you would have to tell everyone that this is how you identify. First off, this is problematic in that no one who meets you for the first will know this. They will however be able to determine that you look like a man or a woman immediately. Of course there are some androgenous individuals who most will not be able to tell us they're male of female, but in those instances, one has a 50/50 chance of getting it right or wrong. To guess one identifies as "zhe" or "zer" would be next to impossible. This identification mandate period will not age well, because it is feels like a teenage phase that will fade just as the Gerry curl faded into oblivion.
It will fade because this issue of gender is a threat to the majority of people on the planet but not in the way some would have us believe. It is not a threat in and of itself, but it is a threat in the sense that it serves to distract from the greater problems we all face today.
The same way in which the debate about racism is a threat to resolving existential threats so too does this debate about how people identify. Is gender identity more important than wealth inequality? In my opinion, the answer is a resounding"NO". Just as ending racism which I think is never going to happen will not feed the millions of people facing food insecurity. Forcing others to accept your pronouns does not help Society as a whole. It is not cohesive, because it serves only to differentiate an individual and to atomize Humanity further. It's like the tower of Babel in that it creates more chaos which only makes it easier for those hoping to control the masses to control the masses.
While figuring out the gender question might necessary, it is definitely not necessary for life on Earth so it should not be one of the most publicized issues of our time. The world and it's resources are being stolen from us all and we are fighting over what could be relegated to an abstract idea. I say abstract because we are fighting for a person's right to identify as whatever they want whenever they want which would seem to have some very odd implications when you consider the possible impacts on systems like the Justice system. If someone uses a defense for murder as being that they identified as a lion during the murders, how do we prosecute such a claim? One the one hand, we put down zoo animals that kill people, even when the person goes into the animal's enclosure. They don't even get a trial. And who's to say the lion/person's claimed identity is any less valid than a person who claims to be female one day, male the next and something completely different the day after that.
Even writing about this issue in this post has taken up too time that could have been better spent discussing the proxy war that seems to be escalating between America/Ukraine and Russia and the war that seems to be brewing between America/Taiwan and China and America/France and Niger/other African nations.
In 2018, I wrote a book highlighting the problems Humanity would face if more power, wealth, and control was funneled to a small group of elite individuals, groups, or organizations. In my book, I provided solutions (from myself and others) to the inevitable problems and also a means for the Public to analyze, compare, and contrast the words and deeds of those we choose to follow against reality. In my book Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America.
In "Solutions...", I provide the means for readers to disseminate information as provided by their news sources of choice, their elected officials, and any other authority they choose to follow. The book also offers a means to hold their leaders up, not just to a higher standard than is currently accepted but to one that would improve their lives and the lives of those for whom they care.
