Someone will have to tell the young university activists of queer religion that demanding the expulsion of teachers who do not agree with their catechism and demanding “socialist control” of the content taught in the classrooms is exactly what they practiced in the name of democracy. the totalitarian movements of the last century in chambers as unexpected as the German one. Denying reality and forcing the entire society to deny it was always one of its strategies, as was educating youth to defend that cause. The reward for the kids was to feel superior, to think that they were working for a greater purpose.
It is advisable to explain it in a simple way, because that well-learned maxim according to which anyone who disagrees with the concept of gender identity must be accused of being phobic and punished for a hate crime is starting to get tiresome and not damn funny. And it is of a worrying intellectual poverty. The trail of cancellations that teachers from the international academic world (in the US, Great Britain...) have suffered simply for remembering that gender is by definition patriarchal oppression and not a supermarket of stereotypical identities has already reached the Universitat Autònoma from Barcelona.
Social Anthropology professor Sílvia Carrasco, an abolitionist feminist with a past at ICV, woke up days ago with the classroom wallpapered with the phrase “Terf Alert” and publications in which she affirms that there are no women with penises. The self-proclaimed “socialist” youth movement calls it transphobic discourse and has issued a video in which she demands the expulsion of her and her team and calls for a response “against gender oppression.”
Gender oppression. There goes the new appropriation that transgenderism makes of a concept that belongs to an enlightened political philosophy such as feminism. For the mothers of those kids who shout “terf,” gender oppression is the definition of the submission and injustice that women suffer for being women. Although little by little they are imbued with the idea that it is a tool for the emotional validation of transgender people. And they want them to remain silent.
