Cliff Berg
1 min readSep 3, 2022

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Here's an alternative:

1. Biological sex is merely one's reproductive configuration.

2. Stop labeling people with regard to "gender". Doing that is a step _backwards_. Why do we need these labels???

3. Accept that some people have a compulsion to "identify" as the other sex. That disorder needs to be accepted, and people with that need to be treated with respect and compassion: if dressing "as the opposite sex" alleviates their anxiety, support that.

4. Accept that a tiny percent of the population have ambiguous biological sex. Those edge cases do not invalidate any of the above.

If someone with male reproductive biology "feels like a woman", what does that mean? Just because you feel like you are stereotypically feminine in some ways does not "make you a woman", or nor does feeling like you are stereotypically masculine in some ways "make you a man". You are just _you_ - and that's okay.

This cultural need - something that has arisen recently - to "identify" as this and that, is an enormous cultural regression. Instead of treating traits as one's "identity", we should treat them as mere adjectives:

Instead of "I identify as a woman" could be "I tend to relate to traditionally feminine things". See the difference? The former puts you in a box; the latter leave you free to be whoever you choose to be.

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Cliff Berg
Cliff Berg

Written by Cliff Berg

Author and leadership consultant, IT entrepreneur, physicist — LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffberg/

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