Gender identity is not a power play
One of the aggravating things about people stating that gender ideology is a thing is that they fundamentally misunderstand what an ideology actually is. Indeed, given that the whole concept of gender ideology was invented by gender critical thinkers when trans people attempt to deconstruct it we are forced to spend energy and effort to counter this propaganda. Ideology comes in many shades, and the 2020s notion of ideology is usually thrown at anyone perceived as woke, socialist, or otherwise caring about social justice. In the dim and distant past, circa 2010, social justice warriors were the apparent scourge of decent society, before that it was feminists, and before them communists. Indeed, whenever social change and equity have been present someone will always find a label to reinforce the status quo. Gender ideology and its apparent adherents fall under this umbrella.
This all assumes that there is something inherently abhorrent and disconnected in accepting that gender identity is a things that concerns everyone. There is narrative power in who gets to shape gender, gender expression and gender identity; indeed, on social media the ability to tweak the algorithm to align certain perspectives shows that cisnormative understandings of gender keep getting reinforced for all they are worth. If anything it is cisnormative worldviews that are the inherent gender ideology, not trans…
