I learned of your excellent work from a close friend, and just finished your insight piece, "Trans messaging is too sophisticated to be the work of a small sexual minority dealing with severe health issues". I am in a group that has trans-gender person, who experiences great angst and 'dysphoria' when I speak or make some determination a…
I learned of your excellent work from a close friend, and just finished your insight piece, "Trans messaging is too sophisticated to be the work of a small sexual minority dealing with severe health issues". I am in a group that has trans-gender person, who experiences great angst and 'dysphoria' when I speak or make some determination about internal directions of the group. "They/she" resigned blaming the 3 elderly white men ("oppressors") for her departure. Oddly, there was no specific 'incident' referenced, so there was no way to know what needed correction.
Gone!
I mulled over this for about 10 days wondering what went wrong. It deeply disturbed me on a couple of levels. Emotionally, I have worked with groups most of my life, so such a charge deeply offended me, an activist for decades with many organizations, and some that I started myself. I've had female leaders whom I admire still to this very day. I have a tendency to be very rational, scientific and focused on the group objectives, but generally ignore the gender, sexuality, or sexual preferences of others in the group, treating everyone equally, and sometimes disagreeing with directions we were being pushed toward. So, I found your article to be immensely helpful to understand my situation with this person...I think she may be vaccine-injured or a victim of the TransGender ideology.
I read intently her private letter to me (which I later shared with others in the group), on how K did not want to be referred to as a 'woman'. But, oddly, in her salutation, referenced herself as "they / she". My other colleagues attempted to respond to K using 'they' to refer to her. Now, throughout my life I have come to understand the English language such that "they" always refers to "more than 1". So it is very weird to me that we are being asked to alter the meaning of "they" in such a way that it can mean "a single person" -- the very opposite of its original meaning.
Any advice you may have to offer me, will be much appreciated.
FYI: I have put together a website that attempts to address our collective problems in a systemic way with the establishment of public banks and building local democracy. It's lean and to the point. I developed it myself as a software developer of 30 years: http://theSecondRevolution.com : Establishing Local Democracy.
Thank you for your incredible work.
You're a life-saver, an oasis of sanity in a world gone berserk.
I learned of your excellent work from a close friend, and just finished your insight piece, "Trans messaging is too sophisticated to be the work of a small sexual minority dealing with severe health issues". I am in a group that has trans-gender person, who experiences great angst and 'dysphoria' when I speak or make some determination about internal directions of the group. "They/she" resigned blaming the 3 elderly white men ("oppressors") for her departure. Oddly, there was no specific 'incident' referenced, so there was no way to know what needed correction.
Gone!
I mulled over this for about 10 days wondering what went wrong. It deeply disturbed me on a couple of levels. Emotionally, I have worked with groups most of my life, so such a charge deeply offended me, an activist for decades with many organizations, and some that I started myself. I've had female leaders whom I admire still to this very day. I have a tendency to be very rational, scientific and focused on the group objectives, but generally ignore the gender, sexuality, or sexual preferences of others in the group, treating everyone equally, and sometimes disagreeing with directions we were being pushed toward. So, I found your article to be immensely helpful to understand my situation with this person...I think she may be vaccine-injured or a victim of the TransGender ideology.
I read intently her private letter to me (which I later shared with others in the group), on how K did not want to be referred to as a 'woman'. But, oddly, in her salutation, referenced herself as "they / she". My other colleagues attempted to respond to K using 'they' to refer to her. Now, throughout my life I have come to understand the English language such that "they" always refers to "more than 1". So it is very weird to me that we are being asked to alter the meaning of "they" in such a way that it can mean "a single person" -- the very opposite of its original meaning.
Any advice you may have to offer me, will be much appreciated.
FYI: I have put together a website that attempts to address our collective problems in a systemic way with the establishment of public banks and building local democracy. It's lean and to the point. I developed it myself as a software developer of 30 years: http://theSecondRevolution.com : Establishing Local Democracy.
Thank you for your incredible work.
You're a life-saver, an oasis of sanity in a world gone berserk.