Singer Demi Levato shared a lengthy screed against gender reveal parties on Wednesday, bashing them extensively as "transphobic."
Screenshot of the cover photo because she disabled sharing:
"It's both insincere and incorrect to pretend that gender reveal parties are not transphobic," said the post. "You can't have your proverbial pink-blue binary cake and eat it too. This is not about political correctness, it's just…correct. We condemn gender reveals not because of our identity, but because of reality."
The original text came from Alok Vaid-Menon, who identifies as a "gender non-conforming" and "transfeminine" writer and artist:
"Transphobia is not just about prejudice against individual trans people, it's also a way of thinking that understands non-trans people as more natural/organic and erases everyone else. These ideas, like the gender binary, fuel mistreatment of all people, but especially trans and gender non-conforming people."
Did you get that? You need to be more tolerant of other people's views of reality, unless those views are that reality has objective truths.
"Gender reveals are based on the illusion that genitals = gender and that there are only two options, 'boy or girl.' This definition erases the fact that there are boys with vaginas and girls with penises and that there are people who are neither boys nor girls. The idea that sex is based on genitalia is inconsistent with science."
Here is a picture of the binary chromosome that is embedded in every one of a person's 7 trillion cells presented without further comment:
"Gender reveals require not just the invalidation of transness, but the impossibility of transness. The assumption is that the baby is cis. Cisness is positioned as the default and everyone else is understood as derivative of it. The idea goes: while we might 'identify' as trans now, we were 'originally' 'born' cis and we later 'became' trans. When in truth, everyone is born. And we all become after the fact."
Well, that's certainly a lot of assertions. Quite the complete little worldview.
"Even though we might have grown accustomed to other people gendering us, that doesn't make it right. Only individuals can determine their own gender."
Remember to yell at your doctor if they tell you your next kid's gender based on biological truth!
The post went on to criticize our use of certain things to differentiate gender, such as seeing pink as a "girl's" color. Presumably, we should do away with any differentiation and stick to shades of grey!
The rant ended by saying that "biological facts" are "myths" and that LGBTQ activists are not trying to "advance" an ideology, but "escape" it.
There's a word for people who are aggressively obstinate in their own opinions to the point that they force others to hold their opinions and treat any who don't with hatred:
Remember, this isn't a post telling people to accept their wishes to live along the gender spectrum and decline to hold gender reveals for their own kids. It's a statement labelling you an intolerant Nazi for deciding to hold a gender reveal party of your own.
And to that, I have just one answer:
