# Trans  ## Metadata - Author: [[Helen Joyce]] - Full Title: Trans - Category: #books ## Highlights - In the simplistic version of the new creed that has hardened into social-justice orthodoxy, gender is no longer even something that is performed. It is innate and ineffable: something like a sexed soul. ([Location 153](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08XQYMWVQ&location=153)) - What is being demanded is no longer flexibility, but a redefinition of what it means for anyone to be a man or woman – a total rewrite of societal rules. ([Location 158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08XQYMWVQ&location=158)) - A liberal, secular society can accommodate many subjective belief systems, even mutually contradictory ones. What it must never do is impose one group’s beliefs on everyone else. ([Location 172](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08XQYMWVQ&location=172)) - Gender self-identification, however, is a demand for validation by others. The label is a misnomer. It is actually about requiring others to identify you as a member of the sex you proclaim. Since evolution has equipped humans with the ability to recognise other people’s sex, almost instantaneously and with exquisite accuracy, very few trans people ‘pass’ as their desired sex. And so to see them as that sex, everyone else must discount what their senses are telling them. ([Location 175](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08XQYMWVQ&location=175)) - These things are happening partly because of an admirable, but poorly thought-out, sense of compassion for trans people. ([Location 244](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08XQYMWVQ&location=244)) - Ideas have consequences, and one of the consequences of the idea of gender self-identification is that children are being manipulated and damaged. ([Location 270](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08XQYMWVQ&location=270))