You did not 'know' that you were 'cis' at age 11 lol- you learned the term 'cis' as an adult and then retroactively applied it to yourself- it's not the same thing
This 'knowledge' (which is akin to the knowledge that your arm possesses 'armness') was *socially produced* through your introduction to the discourse of 'gender identity', through your introduction to a conceptual distinction founded upon 'identifying with one's assigned sex'
Ironically, the fact that you've never felt a dissonance between yourself and your 'assigned sex' becomes evidence for the legitimacy of the distinction in the first place i.e. you assume that because *you* experience a unity of 'gender' and 'sex', this implies that others don't
By teaching young children that they *can* experience a dissonance between their 'inner selves' and their 'assigned sex', you actually invite them to 'consider what this would be like'- and this objectless rumination then becomes the 'evidence' for the necessity of transition
Since there are no actual tangible standards by which a person can verify that their gender 'matches' their assigned sex (literally none whatsoever), in the absence of such standards, the mind's process of enquiring into itself *becomes* the standard
A given vocabulary *extends* and *produce* new modes of self-understanding, new modes of conceptualisation- they don't 'unlock' knowledge already present
When the mind is given as a task an unsolvable enquiry (unsolvable because the resolution it seeks is a pure phantom of categorisation), it actually *creates* a feeling of disatisfaction, a sense that 'something is wrong'- because 'if there's no problem, why am I searching one?'
The assumption is then that this 'feeling of something being wrong' is a deeply felt part of the self that has been 'unearthed' by the act of enquiry- when it is actually something produced as a *positive effect* of that enquiry! (not 'positive' in the sense of 'good', obviously)
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When people say 'stop thinking about it' or 'stop being depressed', they actually mean 'stop producing depressed discourse'- the 'inescapability' of these things is in their recursive self-production via 'thinking about them'
Beckett's 'The Unnamable' is practically a demonstration of this- written from the point of view of a disembodied voice (it's only embodiment is 'in the text') self-generating its own claustrophobia through its inability to cease
Lest anyone think I'm being dismissive of mental anguish, I suffered from 'depression' and 'anxiety' for a long time- in my early 20s- before I developed the spiritual confidence to affirm what I'd intellectually always suspected: that these things have no actual existence
I don't think any of you have 'shown understanding' of the point I've been making, which is why someone with at the very least an inkling of intellectual curiosity asked me to elaborate on it earlier- leading to the thread I wrote today
I'm not 'accusing' any of you of 'not getting it' either- I don't attach any moral significance to whether you 'get it' or not, except when it forms the basis of your justification for congregating with a bunch of other people to sneer at someone in a self-satisfied group
I apologise if I lost my temper yesterday- I was mad- but I do not respect this behaviour, and I do not respect the lame justifications people make for engaging in it- esp. when their reasons for 'not getting' it are so obviously motivated by personal animosity
'Thesis-Antithesis- Synthesis' comes from Fichte- no one in this argument agrees with 'family abolition' in the literal, Sophie Lewis sense- the argument isn't that doing so would give rise to some 'synthesis' of something else- I believe in monogamy, marriage etc
Hegel uses the term Aufhebung which has multiple senses, including both 'cancel' and 'preserve'- so the question should be how can one cancel and preserve something at the same time? The proper analogy is the relationship between idolatry and real experience of the Divine
An idol is a representation of the Divine- perhaps in the early stages of a spiritual culture, it serves a legitimate mediating function- over time however, it comes to simply 'represent itself'- people do not worship *through* the idol- they worship the idol itself