It would be nice to just stand aside and let Chu further beclown himself into public ridicule.
Unfortunately there is too much at stake.
Telling confused children they can change sex by taking hormones and cutting off healthy body parts is a dangerous lie.
Telling women they must sacrifice their protected spaces to satisfy the desires of cosplaying men is not “kind”, it is misogyny.
Telling all of us we must set aside reality and our freedom to speak the truth in order to affirm the delusional is demographic scale gaslighting.
It has taken years and incredible efforts on the part of a small number of, mainly, women challenging this madness just to return medical practice in the UK to a semblance of ethical standing. There is still a long way to go.
Chu is exposing what the hard core activists really think but want kept hidden. The more this is exposed for what it really is the better.
Chu is like this guy who amputated healthy limbs because patients wanted it except worse as there would be no “gatekeeping” at all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/625680.stm
Adoptive Loiner
2 months ago
“Let anyone change their sex. Let anyone change their gender. Let anyone change their sex again.”
We must resist this attempt to blur the line between sex and gender, the pretense that they are one and the same thing and are interchangeable.
Gender is a construct. It has to do with what clothes you wear, whether you are masculine or feminine, the role you play in the society around you. It is an expression of who one feels one is as a person.
Sex is biological, it is immutable. A sex change is an impossible misnomer. No surgery, medical treatment or affirmation can ever change your biological sex.
Not even gender Ideologues agree on what gender is these days. It should either revert to being another word for sex – the biological classification, to distinguish from sex the act, or it should be ditched all together in common parlance. https://unherd.com/2024/03/what-is-judith-butler-afraid-of/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3
“She seems unruffled by the fact that, in prosecuting her case, she can’t define “gender” clearly — her most definite pronouncement is that it is “a felt sense of the body, in its surfaces and depths, a lived sense of being a body in the world in this way”.”
I would argue the reason they can’t define it is because to do so would be to accept that there is a difference between sex and gender, and therefore admit that those who change gender don’t actually change sex.
To paraphrase that famous internal memo by a tobacco executive dealing with mounting evidence of the link between smoking and cancer:
“Confusion is the trans-activist’s product.”
If gender and sex are vaguely enough defined, then the propositions that “gender can be changed” and “sex can be changed” may be used interchangeably to confuse the debate and deflect objections.
Right-Wing Hippie
2 months ago
Transactivism, as this…person’s ranting reveals, is like Prohibition or Communism: the principle trumps everything else, even if it means everyone will be worse off.
Erik Hildinger
2 months ago
Did anyone else think of the Aesop’s fable about the fox that lost its tail?
Ze didn’t lose his tail. Ze identifies as a Capybara.
Do better!
Hugh Bryant
2 months ago
Nearly fifty years ago the great John Carpenter made a film about a future in which major American cities had become so full of crime, corruption and degeneracy that the only solution was to wall them off, thereby quarantining the rest of society from their influence.
Maybe when the border wall is done …
Steve Jolly
2 months ago
If medical technology was such that we could actually change sex through some as yet undiscovered technique without serious side effects or consequences, Chu’s position would make some sort of sense, but we can’t. If we could say, regrow our bodies into whatever we want through some gene therapy that allowed us to regenerate like starfish or we had developed hyper-realistic synthetic parts that actually functioned properly, then this libertine attitude toward changing one’s own gender would make a certain amount of sense, even for teenagers.
We don’t live in that world though. The treatments currently used only really address outward appearances, badly (seriously could anybody not tell that’s a man from the photo at the top?). They also have serious side effects in the shorter and longer term. As much as a man may think he should have been a woman and want to be a woman, medical technology cannot make that happen. The reverse is also true. What is euphemistically called a sex-change surgery or gender reassignment is basically just cosmetic surgery combined with hormone therapy, neither of which have a great medical track record.
Jim Veenbaas
2 months ago
I think it’s important to shed light on trans issues when it’s news – when trans athletes compete against women, when govt imposes new standards etc. – but do we need to share the effed up ideology of every wing nut on the planet?
It’s just all so exhausting. Maybe I should stop reading stories featuring dingbats.
Mike Downing
2 months ago
Let’s be honest, Andrea was probably just a podgy, unattractive not very masculine boy who has disappeared down a very deep rabbit hole.
He’s probably gay too and should have just embraced his inner rice queen and got on with it. He could have simply changed his name from Long Chu to Schlong Chew.
UnHerd Reader
2 months ago
Gender was defined by feminists as a social construct because they wanted to eliminate discrimination by denying all intrinsic differences between men and women. That came back and bit them when the gender idealogues largely won the public argument (or at least bullied everyone into silence by yelling “transphobe”) with the claim that gender is an immutable characteristic of the psyche.
The solution is to stop connecting “gender” with male and female,,and replace it with “personality”, which truly is on a spectrum. Male and female should be restricted to biological reality. Do this and the transgender tragedy will largely disappear..
Is Chu for real or is this another Titania McGrath?
Either way, having someone this openly unhinged is just what the (#no)debate needs.
Chu is the same charmer who described the essence of female-ness as a “gaping, expectant a***hole”.
Titiana McGrath has nothing on this imbecile.
Titania McGrath is a spoof by Andrew Doyle.
It would be nice to just stand aside and let Chu further beclown himself into public ridicule.
Unfortunately there is too much at stake.
Telling confused children they can change sex by taking hormones and cutting off healthy body parts is a dangerous lie.
Telling women they must sacrifice their protected spaces to satisfy the desires of cosplaying men is not “kind”, it is misogyny.
Telling all of us we must set aside reality and our freedom to speak the truth in order to affirm the delusional is demographic scale gaslighting.
It has taken years and incredible efforts on the part of a small number of, mainly, women challenging this madness just to return medical practice in the UK to a semblance of ethical standing. There is still a long way to go.
Chu is exposing what the hard core activists really think but want kept hidden. The more this is exposed for what it really is the better.
Chu is like this guy who amputated healthy limbs because patients wanted it except worse as there would be no “gatekeeping” at all:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/625680.stm
“Let anyone change their sex. Let anyone change their gender. Let anyone change their sex again.”
We must resist this attempt to blur the line between sex and gender, the pretense that they are one and the same thing and are interchangeable.
Gender is a construct. It has to do with what clothes you wear, whether you are masculine or feminine, the role you play in the society around you. It is an expression of who one feels one is as a person.
Sex is biological, it is immutable. A sex change is an impossible misnomer. No surgery, medical treatment or affirmation can ever change your biological sex.
Not even gender Ideologues agree on what gender is these days. It should either revert to being another word for sex – the biological classification, to distinguish from sex the act, or it should be ditched all together in common parlance.
https://unherd.com/2024/03/what-is-judith-butler-afraid-of/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3
“She seems unruffled by the fact that, in prosecuting her case, she can’t define “gender” clearly — her most definite pronouncement is that it is “a felt sense of the body, in its surfaces and depths, a lived sense of being a body in the world in this way”.”
I would argue the reason they can’t define it is because to do so would be to accept that there is a difference between sex and gender, and therefore admit that those who change gender don’t actually change sex.
To paraphrase that famous internal memo by a tobacco executive dealing with mounting evidence of the link between smoking and cancer:
“Confusion is the trans-activist’s product.”
If gender and sex are vaguely enough defined, then the propositions that “gender can be changed” and “sex can be changed” may be used interchangeably to confuse the debate and deflect objections.
Transactivism, as this…person’s ranting reveals, is like Prohibition or Communism: the principle trumps everything else, even if it means everyone will be worse off.
Did anyone else think of the Aesop’s fable about the fox that lost its tail?
Ze didn’t lose his tail. Ze identifies as a Capybara.
Do better!
Nearly fifty years ago the great John Carpenter made a film about a future in which major American cities had become so full of crime, corruption and degeneracy that the only solution was to wall them off, thereby quarantining the rest of society from their influence.
Maybe when the border wall is done …
If medical technology was such that we could actually change sex through some as yet undiscovered technique without serious side effects or consequences, Chu’s position would make some sort of sense, but we can’t. If we could say, regrow our bodies into whatever we want through some gene therapy that allowed us to regenerate like starfish or we had developed hyper-realistic synthetic parts that actually functioned properly, then this libertine attitude toward changing one’s own gender would make a certain amount of sense, even for teenagers.
We don’t live in that world though. The treatments currently used only really address outward appearances, badly (seriously could anybody not tell that’s a man from the photo at the top?). They also have serious side effects in the shorter and longer term. As much as a man may think he should have been a woman and want to be a woman, medical technology cannot make that happen. The reverse is also true. What is euphemistically called a sex-change surgery or gender reassignment is basically just cosmetic surgery combined with hormone therapy, neither of which have a great medical track record.
I think it’s important to shed light on trans issues when it’s news – when trans athletes compete against women, when govt imposes new standards etc. – but do we need to share the effed up ideology of every wing nut on the planet?
Dear Jim, take a deep breath and have a lie down. Ze’s not worth the effort.
It’s just all so exhausting. Maybe I should stop reading stories featuring dingbats.
Let’s be honest, Andrea was probably just a podgy, unattractive not very masculine boy who has disappeared down a very deep rabbit hole.
He’s probably gay too and should have just embraced his inner rice queen and got on with it. He could have simply changed his name from Long Chu to Schlong Chew.
Gender was defined by feminists as a social construct because they wanted to eliminate discrimination by denying all intrinsic differences between men and women. That came back and bit them when the gender idealogues largely won the public argument (or at least bullied everyone into silence by yelling “transphobe”) with the claim that gender is an immutable characteristic of the psyche.
The solution is to stop connecting “gender” with male and female,,and replace it with “personality”, which truly is on a spectrum. Male and female should be restricted to biological reality. Do this and the transgender tragedy will largely disappear..