Watched the video and I want my money back.
This pseudo-intellectual goes on for five minutes and clearly doesn't understand these simple things---------
1) Sex and gender are not the same. (How many times I've been forced to say this...)
2) Gender is largely cultural.
3) Transgender individuals do not accept the cultural standards of who they are expected to be based on their designation at birth.
Is this really that hard to grasp?
His "are you 60?" and "are you a moose?" comments betray his general misunderstanding of language. It's egregious. How many of these alt-right types are strict language prescriptivists and don't even realize it is embarrassing to behold.
A moose is a label for a physical phenomenon. It is a word. The word "moose" is not the physical moose. Again, it is a label. Humans dictate the way words are used. Commonly used words have commonly understood meanings, but words can change. People use words in different ways.
To say, "you are a moose" is incorrect in our culture because, by standard convention, a "moose" is exactly what you think of it. That is a societal and cultural thing. "Gender", on the other hand, has become more well-understood and its meaning has changed. "Boy" and "girl" have changed their meanings from "male" and "female", which are biological terms.
When you say, "I identify as a man," you are really saying, "I believe of myself as abiding by the common traits that society has designated towards men." When you say "I think you're a moose," you say, "I think you exhibit traits of a moose." The latter is harder to justify because the meaning of "moose" is easier to grasp, in the cultural sense, and is, above all, determinable purely from external sensing.
So in short, this guy can eat a ***.