Thursday, November 23, 2023

Liz Wheeler: Trans people's genders are fake

Young America's Foundation (link: Wikipedia) put up a YouTube short titled "Liz Wheeler DEBUNKS Gender Ideology In Under 60 Seconds."

There is no such thing as gender ideology, but anyway, this video short is not a debunking of anything. In this video, Liz Wheeler makes declares that a statement she calls "gender ideology" is actually wrong because she has the right to question it and also because she already knows it's wrong. The end. Those two reasons contradict each other, and neither constitutes a debunking.

Thesis

Here's how she defines the claim of "gender ideology":

video still with caption: men can be women if they want to, and women can be men if they choose

She wants to ask a question, please

video still with caption: by what measurable standard
video still with caption: can a man say that he's a woman or can a woman say that he's a man

(Because asking a question isn't bad, she says)

video still with caption: that if you question in any way, shape or form, you are treated as a bigot

It's not bigoted, harmful or hateful to ask a question, she says:

video caption: it's none of those things to ask the question by what measurable

No, wait, she already knows the answer to her 'question', so — antithesis

video still with caption: and it can't simply be by someone's feelings
video still with caption: there has to be something tangible and concrete and we know what that is

"...and we know what that is."

OK, so she wasn't asking a question.

The debunking was not a debunking

This was just stating a proposition — A person can switch genders "if they want to" or "if they choose" — and then making a competing statement: "It can't simply be by someone's feelings. There has to be something tangible and concrete and we know what that is."

The question "By what standard..." is not a real question if you already "know what that [standard] is".

More, simply contradicting a statement is not a debunking of the statement.

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