DiscussionGender ideology is religion.

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[–]TransspeciesUnicornI sexually identify as a mythical sparkly equine 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, gender ideology is basically a nontheistic religion that centers around the concept of the "spiritual self" and how to attain that self. But people don't see it because they use terms like "gender identity" instead of "soul" and "transfeminine/transmasculine" instead of "female/male energy". You can really see it in how some TRA's act like coming out as trans is like being spiritually reborn, with the old self being "dead". Like the whole concept of "dead-naming" is kind of creepy in how religious sounding it is.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, gender ideology is basically a nontheistic religion that centers around the concept of the "spiritual self" and how to attain that self.

That's an interesting, useful way to put it. I don't know enough about religion categorization to know whether it qualifies as a religion per se, but at least it seems like a set of spiritual beliefs.

You can really see it in how some TRA's act like coming out as trans is like being spiritually reborn, with the old self being "dead"

Yup, exactly.

[–]kwallio 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To me it seems like they think that transitioning is a sort of rebirth, like they hate their 'dead name" and given the number of criminals who transition and then take great pains to distance themselves from their past they clearly view it as a spiritual rebirth as well. Like pointing out that someone doing a reading to children is actually a convicted felon is just ~rude~.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They(transmeds at least) believe in trans(pardon the pun)scending their biological sex and morphing into their perfect gender form(a idealized construct in their minds). I wouldn't be a bit surprised if many also believed in things like attaining "higher vibrations" or new agey stuff like that and perhaps waiting on the coming of the comet that would bring them into a higher plane of existence. When expectations are set so fantastically high for transition it's no wonder that it so often ends up in one place.

Also, many non-theistic religions still have a deity in some other form, it's just not anthropomorphized and seen as a deity. But it is worshiped like one.