Nicely written blog post. I like this quote:

"So the labels “man” and “woman” only refer to your gender identity, which has no bearing on your actual sex, or even how you express your gender, your personality, your interests, or any other aspect of your person. It is just your gender identity, and nothing more than your gender identity. In other words, it’s a concept completely empty of any meaning whatsoever."

It might be without any meaning as a word, but it does have a deeper emotional meaning: its about power, who has it, and who has to knuckle under and repeat whatever absurdity they are told.

If a hulking great bearded man with a penis who behaves in stereotypical masculine ways can make others call him a woman, that's a pretty strong indication that he has power over them. That's straight out of 1984: if Orwell were writing Big Brother today, he might have had Winston Smith agree that Charlotte Clymer has always been a woman.

It goes the other way too -- if you're the person formerly known as Ellen Page, then being able to make people agree that you've always been a man (and without charging you with cultural appropriation for playing female roles for your entire career) demonstrates that you have power over them.

The ultimate end result of this naked display of power is to have trans men and women forgo any sort of transition or medical treatment or even wearing clothes typical of the opposite sex. Male to male, and female to female, trans is the next stage. If you believe those who follow the young kids on Instagram and Tik Tok, we're already there: teens are labelling themselves as trans while behaving and dressing as their stereotypical "assigned at birth" sex.

To paraphrase: "Of course I'm not cis, I'm a trans boy, I cross-dress as a girl, my pronouns are she/they, and I'm gay so I'm attracted to cis boys."