Gender ideology is a Marxist theory meant to destroy the family by turning children against their own bodies and often against their parents and dissolving basic categories, such as male and female, that humans use to navigate the world, a researcher said in a recent interview.
Jay Richards is the director of The Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.
In an interview for EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program, Richards said gender ideology denies the reality of male and female as a given biological category, replacing it with an entirely internal and subjective category of gender identity.
“What you really are isn’t sort of defined or even constrained by your body, it’s defined by this internal kind of subjective view of your gender, which is itself a circular definition,” he said….