Communalism is the all encompassing term given to a comprehensive
theory and practice that seeks to reconstruct society along ecological
lines. It is based in the essential premise that all environmental problems are rooted in social problems. Along
with global climate change, problems such as widespread pollution,
deforestation, and species extinction are all anthropogenic in their
source. Assessing these issues as a whole, we can see that our society
is simplifying the environment on a global scale. In fact, it is undoing
the achievements of evolution by creating a more simplified, inorganic
world.
Communalism holds an objective set of social ethics that reflect the
most developmental trends in evolution, including greater choice,
dynamic stability, and diversity. Supported by these ecological trends,
Communalism provides a foundation to act against injustice, domination,
and hierarchy, which are neither “natural” nor inevitable features of
society.
These ideas also work within a historical framework that recognizes
that society has not always maintained the irrational form that we live
in today. Communalism asserts that an ideal of freedom has expanded
throughout history in opposition to the development of hierarchy and
domination. To build upon these emancipatory efforts, a reconstructive
vision is provided of an ecologically harmonious society that is free
from all forms of hierarchy.
Florence Ashley and Alexandre Baril look at a new term that has appeared in the transgender debate: “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”. There is no such thing. The term is made up by people who feel a need to invalidate transgender people, and not by scientists who know anything about the issue.
Gender-affirmative therapy’s motto is: “Follow the child.” If that means following them to social transition and, in due time, medical transition, then so be it. But only if that’s what they truly want.
Transgender children are in good hands. Therapists aren’t acting hastily in ignorance of scientific evidence. On the contrary, their approach is one that’s been built over decades of research and of following trans children.
The unfounded idea of rapid-onset gender dysphoria is a poor attempt at manufacturing a new moral panic — based on the same old idea of “contagion” — over children who couldn’t be in safer hands.
