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Characterised as ‘an excessive indulgence in a pleasure or luxury’, decadence is very much a Western concept. It signifies a moral and cultural decline in values. But transgender ideology is not confined to the Global North. I travel extensively to investigate stories on male violence towards women and girls in all its forms, and have encountered decadence in Pakistan, Uganda, Ecuador and Albania. But one thing connects those institutions and individuals promoting theories about ‘gender identity' trumping biological sex, and that is institutionalised wealth and educational privilege.
The notion of self-declaration is state-sanctioned narcissism, because it seeks to force the rest of society, including our legal system, to recognise a person as the opposite sex. In a world where trans prisoners are demanding curling tongs, mascara and perfume in bottles, so that they continue their performance of femininity, women are demanding safe spaces from male bodied people so that they can spend one night without the fear of assault.
The problem is the colonisation of the identity of 'female'. Men who self-identify as women want to have fun with our oppression, in other words to experience it as a thrill.
‘Luxury beliefs’ are the latest status symbol for Americans. Whereas in the past, the upper-classes in the United States would display their social status with luxury goods, today they do so with gender woo. Gender: A Luxury Belief by Julie Bindel
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