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":
She wants to ask a question, please
(Because asking a question isn't bad, she says)
It's not bigoted, harmful or hateful to ask a question, she says:
No, wait, she already knows the answer to her 'question', so — antithesis
"...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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