Coincidentally, there was an interesting thread on twitter today about
queer theory and the sexualizing of children (
archive)
It got me thinking: everyone here here is familiar with the "adult human female" definition that makes TRAs seethe but I think we don't focus enough on the "adult" part. The new and improved TRA definition is "a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman." But notice it's not "any
adult who identifies as a woman."
I don't think that everyone who parrots that definition is consciously trying to advance pedophilia. But by swallowing the ideology, they have made it easier for pedos (and people who are happy to promote pedophilia to prove that they are groundbreaking non-normies) to advance their cause.
The issue is: once you have started placing feelings and desire over actual biological boundaries, why not try to push the age boundary next? A lot of victims of pedophilia end up convinced (because of grooming) that the relationship they are in is consensual. And child molesters will argue about how a certain victim is
actually very mature for their age and was
totally ready for a sexual relationship. Well, we have already decided as a culture that feelings trump biological sex, and now we have moved onto "biological sex isn't real anyway," so... why should the fixed adult/child boundary remain in place?
It's particularly ominous now that it's occurring alongside the push for puberty blockers and the reframing of natural puberty as something optional and possibly harmful. Once you decouple chronological age from physical and sexual maturity, the concept of a "child" becomes even fuzzier and easier to attack.
Note that the idea of
suppressing some secondary sexual characteristics permanently is even being floated in science journals now, and has received zero pushback. Activists have tied puberty blockers to trans rights so successfully that the subject has become almost untouchable. And so now it's just ratcheting up, slowly.
Sorry for waxing philosophical, it's just something that really struck me, especially when combined with all the good liberals insisting that this sexualized drag queen stuff is good because they don't want to disagree and be one of Those People.