One more post and then back to the NFL where I don't get as angry.
They have totally confused younger people with the idea that sex and gender are two different things. This idea comes from sociology, which is a discipline in which "researchers" make shit up as they go along, unlike, for example, engineering. Education is another one. The "research" in education is mostly qualitative or "naturalistic inquiry".
How do I know? Because I have a PhD from Texas A&M in the College of Education. Most of the profs are nut jobs! They're smart and stupid at the same time if that makes sense.
There's a reason why stupid people major in sociology.
So these younger people learned that gender is fluid. If I try to tell them that the entire idea that sex and gender are different is made up for the purpose of promoting an agenda, they don't understand, and want to balk at the idea. Or that, in fact, for decades they were commonly known to be the same. The way Mary is the same name as Maria, or Sean is the same name as John, etcetera, just different words for the same thing, they can't compute it.
If I tell them that REAL HARD science says there are only two genders because gender is based on chromosomes, not what your mental illness thinks that it is, they can't compute.
They will argue that nature has plenty of examples of fluid gender. When I ask for an example amongst mammals, they can't come up with one (maybe there is). There are examples in nature, but we're mammals. We don't lay eggs that are affected by changes in temperature. The examples that I've seen are from species that lay eggs.
An example they use is the Bearded Dragon. But the Bearded Dragon changes its sex while still in the egg, and it's a response to changes in the temperature while it's still in the egg.
I'm going long, but the bottom line is these people are sick in the head, and we cannot allow them to change the meaning of words or compel speech. We can't allow them to force us to say ir, mer, or any of the other 40+ gender pronouns that they want to use. Or to remove gender from the Latin languages.
For example, they want to change the Italian language to say Cas instead of Casa (house or home) or even Casx.
Sorry for the diatribe. Back to football.