For sometime now I have been trying to compose a posting on the subject of gender theory. It is time to try and to keep it brief.

There are those who hold to a strict binary view of human sexuality, that is, heterosexual males and heterosexual females. My personal and professional experience is that the binary view fails to take into account much of genuine human experience both on the individual level and within the context of a social cultural community. One may not agree with the behavioral choices made by another person, society or culture, but one cannot always dispute the sincerity of the other and the functionality of those choices often over millennia.

The charge of ideological colonization is made against those who offer a gender theory different from the strict binary view. Is it not also ideological colonization when one insists that his/her conceptualization of human nature and sexuality is contextually free, cultural universal, and permanently valid and that a single set of such concepts is the pinnacle of human perfection and intelligence? That insistence is then followed by employing or attempting to employ any number of authorities and mechanisms to insure that one interpretation of what it is to be human delegitimizes all others.