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1. Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 21:00:45 JST Flick 🇬🇧

   https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/little-miss-trouble

   Induction into this religion begins with a baptism: the selection of pronouns and often a new name, greeted with all the celebration (and more) of a conversion. It evangelizes aggressively: through social media influencers, who claim to know a teen’s truest self better than her parents and to love that teen so much more than they ever could. Therapists, teachers, and school counselors play evangelist to numberless kids at American school.

   There’s no physical evidence that any of us possesses an ethereal gender identity, of course. It may actually be disprovable; there is a good deal of evidence against it. No matter. The adherents take it on faith. The notion that each of us is born with a gender identity, utterly separable from our physiology, known only to us, imagines gender identity as the secular version of the ‘soul.’

   • Yetimon (yetimon@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 21:00:45 JST Yetimon

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     @Flick Fact check: False. They're not making supernatural claims, therefore not a religion. Also souls are not real.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 21:00:45 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Yetimon
     @Yetimon @Flick religion is not specifically supernatural (1/3 definitions include the word). That said, if there is no natural evidence for the gender identity they claim exists, that seems super natural to me.