I don’t give a shit about Woke ideology one way or the other.

But I think Christian Parenti has it more or less exactly right. Birds and trees might have a sexual biology than leans M-ish or F-ish, and it might be so pronounced that we can more or less say that this one’s male, this one’s not; close enough.

But gender is a purely cultural construct, and I think that’s all anyone has to know.

It might be somewhat based on one’s apparent biological sex, or it might transgress or subvert that appearance for any number of reasons–Most all of them valid.

If I choose to think of myself as trans- (“beyond”) gender or the prescribed gender binary, that’s my business, and none of yours, unless I edge toward making it yours by, for example:

–Walking into a public restroom where you might happen to be, (triggering you somehow), or

–Insisting that I have the right to compete in any sport I want, especially “women’s” whatever.

Trans people have every right in the world to be trans, and to be treated Fairly.

Some trans people, some men, some women, are assholes trying to game the system to their own advantage.

To bend it to suit their own Interests.

Be Trans and god bless you for your heresy. I mean it.

Don’t be an asshole and that goes for everybody.

And, especially, don’t be a meta-asshole and try to pump the brains of schoolchildren or other naïfs full of brainwash. About gender.

About democracy.

About capitalism.

About history, heroes, gods, monsters, right … and wrong.