Gender ideology is prominent locally in medical systems. It is pervasive on every level, to the point that medical staff are boxed into ideological compliance whether or not they are in agreement.
I recently referred a friend to a physician I trust, and the friend, who is politically conservative, called me to report with some concern tha…
Gender ideology is prominent locally in medical systems. It is pervasive on every level, to the point that medical staff are boxed into ideological compliance whether or not they are in agreement.
I recently referred a friend to a physician I trust, and the friend, who is politically conservative, called me to report with some concern that the doctor I sent her to is a "they/them." I was very surprised, because the physician has been pregnant a couple times within the past four years, is relatively socially conservative and is a not into healthcare fads. I subsequently learned that, within the large system where the doctor works, the physicians don't necessarily write their own bios. They just give their facts to whomever is assigned to create the doctors' online profiles. If the doctor declines to provide "pronouns" when asked for them by the writer, the writer uses "they/them" when referring to the doctor.
This practice is regarded as a matter of common courtesy among many members of Gen Z and slightly older people. They are normalizing among themselves the social requirement that everyone be given a pronoun that makes a statement about that person's gender, or their lack of knowledge thereof. I think that the level to which these young people are in the drivers' seat of the gender movement is underestimated, or at least is not mentioned much by authors critical of the gender ideology and its relationship to gender affirmative care. Young people are the ones who demand that medical schools be converted into centers for studying and applying critical theory activism. Older and temporarily more powerful people are exploiting the idealistic, moralistic fervor as well as the confusion of young people caught up in critical theory activism, but the younger generations of Americans are in the leadership of woke medical activism.
I hate seeing, thinking, and saying this, but the people who are now Gen Z will be taking over officially pretty soon as well as actually, as they already are. It looks like the students entering medical schools in the U.S. may not be learning much medicine soon. I support and participate in the effort to turn this dreaded trajectory around, but that probably won't happen unless a critical mass of Gen Z turns away from their stated objectives to impose the gender ideology on everyone.
Yes, the younger generations are absolutely drivers of this movement, too. The top-down astroturfing wouldn't have been so effective with previous generations. They were groomed in places like Tumblr and trained to be activists in K-12 education (I've seen much of what the assignments look like--students are endlessly encouraged to take a social justice activist stance in their essay assignments and to find their "voice", which is naturally a breeding ground for an overblown sense of personal importance before achieving anything).
We're in for a bad few generations and I'm seriously worried about what will happen when the competent professionals finally retire.
Gender ideology is prominent locally in medical systems. It is pervasive on every level, to the point that medical staff are boxed into ideological compliance whether or not they are in agreement.
I recently referred a friend to a physician I trust, and the friend, who is politically conservative, called me to report with some concern that the doctor I sent her to is a "they/them." I was very surprised, because the physician has been pregnant a couple times within the past four years, is relatively socially conservative and is a not into healthcare fads. I subsequently learned that, within the large system where the doctor works, the physicians don't necessarily write their own bios. They just give their facts to whomever is assigned to create the doctors' online profiles. If the doctor declines to provide "pronouns" when asked for them by the writer, the writer uses "they/them" when referring to the doctor.
This practice is regarded as a matter of common courtesy among many members of Gen Z and slightly older people. They are normalizing among themselves the social requirement that everyone be given a pronoun that makes a statement about that person's gender, or their lack of knowledge thereof. I think that the level to which these young people are in the drivers' seat of the gender movement is underestimated, or at least is not mentioned much by authors critical of the gender ideology and its relationship to gender affirmative care. Young people are the ones who demand that medical schools be converted into centers for studying and applying critical theory activism. Older and temporarily more powerful people are exploiting the idealistic, moralistic fervor as well as the confusion of young people caught up in critical theory activism, but the younger generations of Americans are in the leadership of woke medical activism.
I hate seeing, thinking, and saying this, but the people who are now Gen Z will be taking over officially pretty soon as well as actually, as they already are. It looks like the students entering medical schools in the U.S. may not be learning much medicine soon. I support and participate in the effort to turn this dreaded trajectory around, but that probably won't happen unless a critical mass of Gen Z turns away from their stated objectives to impose the gender ideology on everyone.
Yes, the younger generations are absolutely drivers of this movement, too. The top-down astroturfing wouldn't have been so effective with previous generations. They were groomed in places like Tumblr and trained to be activists in K-12 education (I've seen much of what the assignments look like--students are endlessly encouraged to take a social justice activist stance in their essay assignments and to find their "voice", which is naturally a breeding ground for an overblown sense of personal importance before achieving anything).
We're in for a bad few generations and I'm seriously worried about what will happen when the competent professionals finally retire.