Then there is the fact that the movement claims to be able to bend reality to its will, or, perhaps more accurately, denies the existence of a natural authority and thereby arrogates to itself the right to create that reality. Again, transgenderism is the most radical form of this mentality: my identity is entirely my own creation; to quote from the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective in 2011, “I claim the right to choose my ultimate gender.”71 Here the move that Charles Taylor notes as characteristic of one major current of modernity—that which makes the world a place of poiesis rather than
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