A Facebook friend who is passionate about both Elizabeth Warren and the Rainbow Flag (LBGTQIA+) religion posted “Elizabeth Warren endured sexism at every step of her campaign” (Guardian):
The next president, it is now assured, will be a man.
Setting aside the insulting dismissal of Tulsi Gabbard, this statement betrays extreme cisgender-normative prejudice and a denial of gender fluidity. How does the author (or anyone) know that Joe Biden won’t identify as a woman by the time January 2021 rolls around?
Nobody predicted Bruce Jenner adopting a new gender ID, right? Is there something more inherently male about Joe Biden than there was about Bruce Jenner? (an immigrant friend after Super Tuesday: “I can’t believe they picked the most demented puppet. The guy had to be defended by his wife from a vegan. He needs a physical and a head CT. Strikes me as a guy with cortical atrophy.”)
If there is nothing special about being born with a doctor-identified female biological sex, how can there be anything special about Elizabeth Warren compared to Joe Biden purely on account of her (potentially transitory) current gender ID?
From March 9, 2020 in our righteous neighborhood (Lincoln, Massachusetts, soon to be home of the most expensive school building, per student, ever constructed in the United States):
Related:
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/03/06/elizabeth-warren-bows-out-with-a-dose-of-cisgender-normative-prejudice/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/03/05/elizabeth-warren-bloomberg-and-trump-are-pretty-much-the-same/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/02/03/are-any-of-the-kansas-city-chiefs-from-the-same-tribe-as-elizabeth-warren/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/12/19/photos-inside-the-elizabeth-warren-campaign-hq/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/02/07/new-elizabeth-warren-meme/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/01/06/elizabeth-warrens-cousin-lights-the-menorah-and-other-not-safe-for-facebook-content/
“If there is nothing special about being born with a doctor-identified female biological sex, how can there be anything special about Elizabeth Warren compared to Joe Biden purely on account of her (potentially transitory) current gender ID?”
One only has to have had children to notice the difference a Y chromosome makes.
With normal sexism, the NYT endorsed “the best woman for the job.” Old Uncle Joe Biden overcame such sexism by sleeping through it. With Joe as our leader, we too shall overcome sexism!
Adam Carolla (and apparently later, family guy) predicted Jenner’s transition
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/39n4v8/til_loveline_cohost_adam_carolla_predicted_bruce/