DiscussionThe God Complex of the TQ+ community

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[–]onenaivecanary 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There is certainly a radical detachment from material reality that is necessary to process all the different gender "identities".

[–]Datachost 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even just at its most basic there's a religious element to it. Try to get one of them to define man or woman and it either ends up coming down to a collection of sexist stereotypes or belief in what amounts to a gender soul. Consider the common "born in the wrong body" mantra, what's born in the wrong body? You are your body.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you have a belief in reincarnation (as popularized among most 20th and 21st Century sources, much less so the classical Eastern sources) then I would say there is some coherency to the idea of having a gendered soul. The problem is that if you sign on to any solid/traditional dogma that embraces reincarnation (or even any of the deeper esoteric modern treatments) then you would find that there is virtually no support for the kind of sexual obsession that is characteristic of the trans community. Much of that philosophy (both Eastern and Esoteric Western) would embrace something much more like the Roman Catholic position on homosexuality: yes it is a real and probably immutable condition, but it is your cross to bear in this lifetime, something to be transcended, not something to be celebrated.