Individual and Divine: Gender Ideology and its Religious Substrate

A very deep dive.

Mac DeStroir

We don’t understand reality very well. In spite of great technological and scientific advances many of the most basic questions about reality and about ourselves are not just unanswered, but less so than ever before in human history. This vacuum in self-understanding is perhaps best represented by the movement we might broadly call “gender ideology,” (excluding at the outset any pejorative sense invoked by the term), to encompass a range of beliefs about the self and what we now call “gender,” more commonly described by the ever increasing acronym LGBTQIA+, the + indiciating the unknown set of letters adopted. When I tried to look up the “correct” acronym I found answers ranging from LGBTQIAPK to 2SLGBTQIA and many more.

There is a huge set of at times contradictory claims within this broad movement, from the relatively simple claim of transgenderism to the idea that gender can be a nebulous symbol word for self-identity expressed by a large variety of pronouns. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki lists a massive subset of gender pronouns and completely novel words to describe various forms of gender identity. Examples include “Omnifaepronominal” which means “when one uses all pronouns besides traditionally masculine ones, including neopronouns…a subtype of faepronominal” or “Archaeopronouns” which are “third person pronouns and forms of pronouns that were used in languages that are no longer spoken” and “some non-binary people may reclaim them and use these pronouns to express their gender.”