"Steve, you've highlighted on one of the most revealing manoeuvres of this entire era: the State did not merely try to rewrite sex, it tried to downgrade reality to opinion. By classifying "sex is real" as a belief, the legal system smuggled in the idea that biology is not a fact we all must work from, but a subjective position one may or may not hold, like a religion or a personal philosophy.
That framing was not accidental. It allowed institutions to treat material reality as one viewpoint among many, and ideological assertion as its equal. Once you place fact and fiction on the same legal footing, you can "balance" them, arbitrate between them, and punish people for preferring the former over the latter. This is why tribunals bend themselves into absurd contortions: they are legally obliged to treat the sentence "a woman is an adult human female" as a belief with equal standing to the claim "a male is biologically female." Courts didn't just lose their grip on reality – they legalised unreality.
And you're right that this is only going to get worse. In a society where material truth is reclassified as belief, and belief is elevated to the status of fact, every political conflict becomes a battle of "competing truths," arbitrated by bureaucracies with no allegiance to reality. That is the postmodern ideal: not to change the world, but to dissolve the idea that anything is objectively real. Once you achieve that, power no longer needs to justify itself – it merely needs to enforce its narrative.
Declaring sex a belief wasn't a concession to women. It was a way of neutering reality so that ideology could stand beside it unchallenged."
