As I understand it, the current trend would rather be to dismiss biology altogether on account of determining gender. Apparently gender is now merely something which is "assigned", and some idiots feel that the natural biological evolution of humans from childhood into adolescence should be genetically and/or pharmaceutically modified so as to create a time frame in which everyone can — or rather, must — decide on what gender they wish to have assigned to them. I kid you not. :rolleyes:
Mind you, I do not intend there to be any disrespect here toward trans-people, and in a way, I feel compassion toward them for first having to have suffered the pain of an identity crisis — and all of the social stigma, harassment and hatred that typically comes with it from all the usual sources — and then the physical suffering (and the financial burden) that they are putting themselves through for having their bodies surgically altered in order to escape that original suffering. It takes a lot of courage to endure all of that, and this should be appreciated and respected.
Yet, at the same time, all respect aside, changing one's physical gender appearance does not change one's biological gender itself. Therefore, I personally cannot regard such people as either male or female depending on what they have chosen to look like. For me, they are and will remain trans-people, and I will refer to them with the by them usually preferred gender-neutral third-person plural pronouns. For that matter, intersexual people go through much of the same suffering, and they were naturally born as biologically androgynous humans.
Therefore, my gripe is not with the trans-people themselves — everyone has a right to happiness, and no one should have to suffer. My gripe is with the "wokesters" who feel that their neuroticism should become everyone else's neuroticism too, and then expect there to no longer be any neuroticism anymore as a result. That is not a socio-political ideology; that's a neurotic projection which abuses the political apparatus in a completely illogical and self-defeating attempt at an unscientific form of auto-psychotherapy.
Another example of this is the push toward so-called "inclusive" language, which in reality is not inclusive but exclusive. One can now no longer refer to electrical or mechanical systems as "master and slave", or to connector pairs as "male and female", and one can now also no longer use the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist", because — Heaven forbids! — somebody somewhere might have non-existing memories of the time of slavery in the USA. And yet, they call it "inclusiveness", while at the same time, smoking on camera is now a taboo and may not be depicted anymore in any movie or TV series, let alone news broadcasts and interviews. :rolleyes:
Even Sinterklaas' helper Black Pete may now no longer be black, even though he was only black from getting covered in soot from crawling up and down the chimneys while delivering toys to the children — historically, Pete was not of African ethnicity, because he is always depicted wearing medieval Spanish clothing and was always understood to be of native Spanish origins.
I consider myself fairly progressive, but the above socio-political phenomena have nothing, zero, zilch to do with being progressive. Nothing whatsoever. If I had the money, I'd buy a large supply of dictionaries and ship them out to all the wokesters so that they can look up on the words "progressive" and "inclusive".
Being truly progressive would mean giving people of all genders and gender choices equal rights, equal opportunities and — since we are unfortunately living in a financial-economic system — equal salaries, and likewise for people of all ethnicities. Respect each other's freedom as you respect your own, and treat every human being with dignity and respect, regardless of who they are. Allow everyone to be happy as they are, as long as they are not harming anyone else — naturally, sociopaths are a hazard to everyone and anyone, and unfortunately, there will always be sociopaths among us. But we're all brothers and sisters, and we're all living on the same rock floating through space.
What being progressive does not mean is "getting rid of your personal neurotic impulses by ramming them down other people's throats and then expecting them to be happy with that." Because if that is how one feels, then one should visit a psychiatrist instead of creating political lobbies.