Jonathan Alpert: Ozempic Melted Away Weight--and the Idea of Body Positivity

As I've said before: something analogous would happen if someone were to develop a shot that actually changed people's sex. Insisting that a man can become a woman simply by saying that he is, or dressing as a woman, or having plastic surgery, is basically a fallback position given the medical/technological (and perhaps scientific) impossibility of actual sex-changes. Were sex changes to actually become possible, then men who really wanted to become women and women who really wanted to become men, would avail themselves of the treatment.

   There would probably still be some people remaining--ideological transgenders--who wouldn't do so. "Queer theory" isn't really about homosexuality or transgenderism. It is, rather, a left-wing theory about how to undermine Western Civilization by trying to case its categories, concepts and kind into doubt. So those people, of course, might not take the treatment. Actually changing sex (or "gender") isn't their goal. They want to engage in "praxis" that (allegedly) challenges reason.