This item at RedState conjures a thought.
Quoth the author: "... our contemporary concept of gender identity isn’t the product of sex."
Well, it certainly isn't tied to biology, nor to grammatical gender. None of these things are sexes nor genders, and most of them bear no relation to pronouns.
So what is it?
It's a way of telling the in-group from the out-group*.
It's part of a big push to turn the younger generation into a distinct social class, or a cult, with elaborate rituals and social conventions utterly incomprehensible to outsiders such as their parents.
Compare to the social rituals and speech conventions at any Imperial Court ever. The courtiers are a breed unto themselves, with no purpose but to flatter the Emperor and to belittle anyone lacking the dress and manners of the Court; having no constructive work to be doing, and being a closed group, they have unbounded time to polish their distinctive manners.
This whole thing is about sowing divisions, primarily between the new generation (and its State-empowered handlers) and the old. Producing a crop of castrati is incidental. And! Note how this aspect ties in neatly with the push to eliminate all vestiges of the parents' culture from the schools? No more books from the before-time. No history as we know it; all history must be invented anew. Math must be reinvented, or preferably abolished. There must be no commonality between the old generation and the new!
* One customary way of telling the innies from the outies is via mutual omphaloskepsis; however, this is impractical in winter.
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