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One of the reasons I feel so alarmed by gender ideology—and why I really question its origins and purposes—is how much division it has sown even in my own life and commitments.
Rewind five or six years. Did I ever imagine that an ideology would come between some of my closest friends and me, and that rather than sorting through it, those friends would refuse to hear a word I said?
No, I couldn't imagine anything like that. Nor could I imagine that friends who were writers and artists and intellectuals and creative people would express themselves not with their own words and ideas but through slogans that stop thought in its tracks.
Could I have thought of anything that would cause me to stop giving money to Planned Parenthood, where I got an abortion and to which I expected I would feel lifelong loyalty, and the ACLU?
Did I ever think I would be rejected or repelled by the activist circles where I spent so much time? That issues as diverse and urgent as climate change and racial justice would expect me to submit to a set of ideological beliefs about gender?
What does parroting gender ideology have to do with fighting climate change? What does this requirement do but divide the left?
Just a few years ago, I couldn't have foreseen any of this. Yet it's plowed through the left like a runaway freight train.
Where is this really coming from? Where is this headed?
Where is this really coming from? Where is this headed?
Who does this serve?
