Which twin has the moral panic?
Gender gender gender gender.
Did I mention gender?
Hannah Gadsby has a new gendersomething. Yay.
Nanette was already an awards-scooping live show before Netflix’s cameras started rolling, but its meteoric success made a proper international celebrity of the festival circuit staple. It also made Gadsby, who grew up in a small town in north-west Tasmania, an unexpected figurehead for LGBTQ+ representation in Hollywood.
Yet again – how does that work? How can anyone be a figurehead for all of those categories?
Gadsby spends much of their time based in Australia but has seen trans rights become a divisive political issue in the US and UK, one often divorced from the voices and experiences of trans and genderqueer people.
I think you’ll find that a hell of a lot of LGBTQ+ “activism” is very divorced from the voices and experiences of L and G and B people who don’t subscribe to trans doctrine. Sometimes people simply disagree on things and therefore are “divorced” from each other.
“It’s just part of the broader culture wars – trans people are being held up as this wedge issue. It’s happened before, we know it’s wrong. We always feel regret, culturally, after these moments – ‘Oh we were a bit harsh there weren’t we?’ But these moral panics exist in a time of great uncertainty, which it is, and certain groups of individuals cop it. And that’s what’s happening, and that makes it very dangerous. And Australia isn’t immune.”
Apparently Gadsby hasn’t noticed that the QT communinny is more than a bit harsh to people who reject trans ideology. What about that eh? Maybe the harshness isn’t all on one side?
I remember living through the Satanic Panic. Genderism doesn’t come out looking very good in that comparison.
See also: Recovered Memory. We keep doing these things.
Kinda sums up humanity, that. We keep making the same mistakes.
Exactly so.
Well evolution takes time; civilization has only existed for ten thousand years or so; can’t expect the animal to change that much in the meantime.
Interestingly, Gadsby used to occupy a more nuanced position in the debate: as a butch lesbian, she was frequently told by others that she “owed it to the trans community” to “come out as trans”. That, she said back then, was “news to her”, on account of she wasn’t trans. She used to talk about it onstage.
Then she entered a relationship with Jill Soloway (writer of Transparent) and much has changed since, including microdosing testosterone, using they/them pronouns, and being less nuanced in these debates.
Blargh, that’s so sad. Moral of the story: be careful whom you hook up with.
Testosterone is a hell of a drug. Is it any wonder that someone who’s given test and, of course, feels more confident, driven, energetic, would interpret that sense of well being through the Genderist lens, given its ubiquity? It’s just like every other cult that’s used chemicals as part of ceremonies.