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Line 8: − + − + − The fundamental work of gender [[ideology]] is ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'' by Judith Butler.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity |author=Judith Butler |publisher=Routledge |year=2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1136783237 |isbn=9781136783234 |quote= }}</ref>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Added history of gender theory and some more facts
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| style="padding:15px;" |''"Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution."''
| style="padding:15px;" |''"Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Radical feminist author and journalist Jill Johnston<ref name="Johnston1973">{{cite book |title=Lesbian nation: the feminist solution |author=Jill Johnston |publisher=Simon and Schuster |place=New York |year=1973 |pages=166, 271 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.sk/books?id=kSgbAAAAYAAJ |quote=...theory and practice come together we'll have the revolution. Untill all women are lesbians...}}</ref></div>
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Radical feminist author and journalist Jill Johnston<ref name="Johnston1973">{{cite book |title=Lesbian nation: the feminist solution |author=Jill Johnston |publisher=Simon and Schuster |place=New York |year=1973 |pages=166, 271 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.sk/books?id=kSgbAAAAYAAJ |quote=...theory and practice come together we'll have the revolution. Until all women are lesbians...}}</ref></div>
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'''Gender ideology''' i.a. argues that innate biological [[sex]] of an individual is irrelevant, and that everyone should have a choice to select whom he or she feels to be or wants to become (man, woman, otherwise sexually or gender-differentiated, respectfully).<ref name="Mohler2015">{{cite book |title=We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong |author=R. Albert Mohler, Jr. |publisher=Harper Collins |year=2015 |pages=77 |isbn=978-07180-32487 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jNhhCAAAQBAJ |quote=we get to choose our gender identity for ourselves, to decide whether gay or straight, male or female, in between, or none of the above. ... By combining the now generally accessible initials for recognizable sexual minority groups, Metcalf came up with the anagram "LGBTQQ2IA." ... And it's not a once-for-all choice,; they can question and redefine themselves at any time.}}</ref> According to this [[demagogue]]ry, [[biological]] division of sexes into [[male]]s and [[female]]s places unnecessary restriction on [[human]]s, because it allegedly creates so called 'gender stereotypes' of thinking and behavioral patterns in the society that later, according to proponents of this '[[Sexual orientation theory|theory]]', may lead into various forms of '[[discrimination]]'. Gender ideology therefore claims to be entitled to redefine the common understanding of the [[sexuality]] of humans from the biological and [[medical]] perspective onto the socio-culturally created artificial construct of '[[gender]],' i.e. onto the [[Göring's syndrome|subject of purely subjective perception]] and feeling of oneself so that everyone can "freely choose" who he or she is or whom wants to be wrt. this so-called 'gender identity'.<ref name="Declaration01JUN2014">{{cite web |title=K príležitosti medzinárodného dňa detí: Vyjadrenie a výzva lekárov, psychológov a iných odborníkov ku vplyvu rodovej ideológie na duševné zdravie detí (On the occassion of International Children's Day: Statement and declaration by medical doctors, physicians, psychologists and other professionals to the impact of gender ideology on the mental health of children) |url=https://rodovescitlivovanie.wordpress.com/ |language=Slovak |quote=Rodová ideológia okrem iného tvrdí, že nezáleží na vrodenom biologickom pohlaví jednotlivca, resp. že je nepodstatné: každý má mať možnosť vybrať si, kým sa cíti alebo kým si želá sa stať (mužom?, ženou?, inak sexuálne/rodovo odlišným?). Biologické delenie pohlaví na mužov a ženy vraj človeka obmedzuje, lebo údajne vytvára v spoločnosti rodové stereotypy zmýšľania a správania, ktoré neskôr vedú k rôznym formám diskriminácie. Rodová ideológia si preto nárokuje predefinovať obvyklé chápanie sexuality človeka z biologického a medicínskeho hľadiska na sociálno-kultúrne vytvorený konštrukt rodu (gender), teda na predmet rýdzo subjektívneho vnímania a cítenia seba samého tak, aby si každý mohol „slobodne určiť“, kým je alebo kým chce (rodovo) byť.}}</ref>
'''Gender ideology''' is the belief that biological sex and "gender" i.e. social identification as male or female, are two different things. This is a false binary division. It assumes the two things are unrelated and therefore separable. Actually biological sex and gender are intrinsically related and male/female identity is so written in to each of our body-cells that even removing our reproductive organs does not change our sex or our gender.
"Gender" in fact is nothing more than an indication of sex. Gender is a signifier. The indication maybe be one of language, or of costume, or something else, but gender is only gender if it indicates biological sex. If it does not, it is a hollow signifier and not true gender. Gender separated from its logical, meaningful connection with sex is a mere nonsense.
An early and disastrous example of gender ideology was the work of the sexologist Dr John Money, who carried out "transsexual" operations in Baltimore, Maryland. He carried out a bizarre experiment from 1966 onwards, on a pair of twin boys named Brian and Bruce Reimer. The twins were born in Winnipeg in August 1965. When they were seven months old, they were sent to hospital for a routine circumcision. The electrical equipment malfunctioned and Bruce's entire penis was burnt off. Brian was not operated on. The family were distraught.
Dr Money advised the Reimers that he could turn Bruce into a girl. When Bruce was 18 months old, he was castrated and an artifical vulva was created for him. The family now called him Brenda and tried to treat him like a little girl.
Dr Money believed that there was a period of babyhood when sexual identity was undecided- a 'gender gate' - which lasted up to the age of two. During that period, he argued, if the parents chose the sex of the child, the way they brought it up would determine the child's gender, not its physical characteristics. Until this point, Dr Money had never put his controversial theory into practice with a non-intersex child. In the Reimers he had the perfect and unplanned opportunity to do so: a set of identical twins, two biological boys, one of whom could be raised a girl.
Janet Reimer wrote to Dr Money of Brenda's progress and once a year the whole family visited him in Baltimore. When Brenda was five Dr Money started to publish her case - disguising her by referring to her as Joan/John - in his books. The case became a sensation. It was the proof that certain extreme feminists in particular were looking for.
Widely cited in many text books, the case was a landmark study - hailed as proof of the overwhelming force of nurture - in spite of increasing evidence that hormones both in the womb and throughout a child's life, play a huge part in an individual's perception of themselves as masculine or feminine.
Nevertheless, Brenda/Bruce behaved in a distinctly masculine fashion. He liked running, fighting and climbing, and loathed playing with dolls. He had no friends and was increasingly lonely as her twin Brian was embarrassed to play with her in front of his other friends. He hated going to visit Dr Money, who insisted that to fully understand that she was a girl, she needed to grasp the difference between men and women, and frequently spoke to him about genitalia. He took photographs of both twins naked, and even encouraged them to engage in sexual play with each other. He tried to persuade Brenda/Bruse to have a vagina constructed, which, at the time, would have been made out of section of his bowel or else from the skin of his thigh, which would then be inserted into the pelvic region.
When Brenda/Bruce was 7, Money showed him graphic photographs of a woman giving birth in an attempt to get him to agree to having a 'baby-hole' made. He also suggested strongly that he take hormone tablets in order to make him grow breasts when she was 12. Other scientists, including Dr Money's ex-students, argue that he did these things in the best possible interests for his patient - to make him believe that he was indeed a girl. '''Brenda/Bruce however felt traumatized and became suicidal.'''
Finally when he was 13, the family told him and Brian the truth. Brenda/Bruce was intensely relieved as she had felt she was going insane. Almost immediately he reasserted that he was a boy and called himself David. David received compensation money for the circumcision and used this to pay for surgery to have a new penis constructed. In his early twenties he married Jane Fontane, who had three children of her own.
Unfortunately, his relationship with his brother worsened. Brian had felt that David, as Brenda, had received all the attention when they were growing up; once he discovered that he was no longer the only boy in the family, he became extremely angry. It was the start of mental disturbance that would develop into schizophrenia. After two failed marriages, he died in 2002, possibly of a drug overdose, which may have been a suicide attempt.
David never managed to complete his education and had to take semi-skilled work. He was made redundant and was unemployed for a year. He sold the movie rights to his story, but lost the money when a business man absconded with his investment. Stricken with grief for his brother, his marriage started to fail. Jane asked him for a short separation period, but David took this very badly. He returned to his parents' house for a few days, before driving to a supermarket car park on 4 May 2004 and shooting himself in the head. He was 38 years old.
Dr Money argued that he cannot be held to blame for this '''twin tragedy''' because David did not accept a female gender identity. He says that the family delayed making a decision until their son was almost two, just before the "gender gate" was about to shut. Others, however, argue that he could have admitted he made a mistake when the case clearly was not working, for he continued to let people believe that it had been successful long after he had stopped seeing Brenda/Bruce and he had become David. <ref> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dr_money_prog_summary.shtml>/ref>
<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11814300</ref>
<ref> The Reimer Twins: A Tragic and Unethical Sex Change Experiment. https://www.sott.net/article/373088-The-Reimer-twins-A-tragic-and-highly-unethical-forced-sex-change-experiment </ref>
<ref> https://documentarystorm.com/dr-money-and-the-boy-with-no-penis/</ref>
<ref>https://Being Brenda : by Oliver Burkeman and Gary Younge www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/12/scienceandnature.gender</ref>
Since the time of Dr Money, understanding of the [[human genome]] has advanced and we now know that a child's sex is fixed from the point of conception, and is inscribed in every cell of his or her body. Hormones present in the womb may influence secondary sexual characteristics, but nothing can change the sex of a child, or of an adult. There is a growing body of evidence that attempting to do so is harmful and innumerable cases of ex-transsexuals who regret and try to reverse their decision.
Not all feminists agree with gender theory. A book advocating it was written by Judith Butler who calls herself a feminist. ''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity |author=Judith Butler |publisher=Routledge |year=2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1136783237 |isbn=9781136783234 |quote= }}</ref>
However, there is a deep ideological divide and vigorous war of words between transsexuals and radical feminists who do not accept biological men as "women".
Despite scientific advance, and this vocal opposition from some radical feminist groups, LGBT activists have continued to persuade politicians worldwide to adopt gender theory as "progress" and legislate accordingly. They argue that innate biological [[sex]] of an individual is irrelevant, and that everyone should have a choice to select whom he or she feels to be or wants to become (man, woman, otherwise sexually or gender-differentiated, respectfully).<ref name="Mohler2015">{{cite book |title=We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong |author=R. Albert Mohler, Jr. |publisher=Harper Collins |year=2015 |pages=77 |isbn=978-07180-32487 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jNhhCAAAQBAJ |quote=we get to choose our gender identity for ourselves, to decide whether gay or straight, male or female, in between, or none of the above. ... By combining the now generally accessible initials for recognizable sexual minority groups, Metcalf came up with the anagram "LGBTQQ2IA." ... And it's not a once-for-all choice,; they can question and redefine themselves at any time.}}</ref> According to this theory, [[biological]] division of sexes into [[male]]s and [[female]]s places unnecessary restriction on [[human]]s, because it allegedly creates so called 'gender stereotypes' of thinking and behavioral patterns in the society that later, according to proponents of this '[[Sexual orientation theory|theory]]', may lead into various forms of '[[discrimination]]'. Gender ideology therefore claims to be entitled to redefine the common understanding of the [[sexuality]] of humans from the biological and [[medical]] perspective onto the socio-culturally created artificial construct of '[[gender]],' i.e. onto the [[Göring's syndrome|subject of purely subjective perception]] and feeling of oneself so that everyone can "freely choose" who he or she is or whom wants to be wrt. this so-called 'gender identity'.<ref name="Declaration01JUN2014">{{cite web |title=K príležitosti medzinárodného dňa detí: Vyjadrenie a výzva lekárov, psychológov a iných odborníkov ku vplyvu rodovej ideológie na duševné zdravie detí (On the occassion of International Children's Day: Statement and declaration by medical doctors, physicians, psychologists and other professionals to the impact of gender ideology on the mental health of children) |url=https://rodovescitlivovanie.wordpress.com/ |language=Slovak |quote=Rodová ideológia okrem iného tvrdí, že nezáleží na vrodenom biologickom pohlaví jednotlivca, resp. že je nepodstatné: každý má mať možnosť vybrať si, kým sa cíti alebo kým si želá sa stať (mužom?, ženou?, inak sexuálne/rodovo odlišným?). Biologické delenie pohlaví na mužov a ženy vraj človeka obmedzuje, lebo údajne vytvára v spoločnosti rodové stereotypy zmýšľania a správania, ktoré neskôr vedú k rôznym formám diskriminácie. Rodová ideológia si preto nárokuje predefinovať obvyklé chápanie sexuality človeka z biologického a medicínskeho hľadiska na sociálno-kultúrne vytvorený konštrukt rodu (gender), teda na predmet rýdzo subjektívneho vnímania a cítenia seba samého tak, aby si každý mohol „slobodne určiť“, kým je alebo kým chce (rodovo) byť.}}</ref>
==Political lobbying instead of science==
==Political lobbying instead of science==