>Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America. Clearly it is on the rise among these researchers because denying someone's identity or lived experience as an attack helicopter or really anything, is fascism. Transgenderism is the belief that someone can be born with an immaterial soul/mind /energy that is different from the evident reality of their body. A woman soul and male body or a man soul and female body are the most common types claimed but as this is an unfalsifiable and subjective state, there is really no reason someone cannot have the soul of a helicopter, cat, lizard or lizard person, celestial body etc. To explain why someone cannot be trans-aircraft one would need to explain what the restrictions are and why someone can be moon or cat-gender but not a helicopter or jet. Or perhaps these fascist researchers believe you can't be trans-anything non-human, (which is speciesism) or trans-racial (which is racist) but they clearly won't explain which kind of trans is acceptable in their fascist worldview because they are cowards. >The authors wrote that the “backlash” to the project “reflects characteristics of contemporary far-right or fascist political movements in the U.S., such as the synthesis of antisemitism with anti-Black and anti-feminist rhetorics.” Sorry, no. How someone self identifies cannot be racist or anti-anything. Under the transgender worldview someone's self identification is a self evident fact and not up for debate. There is no left wing argument that someone cannot be any gender even if they made it up on the spot. Whether you like it or not, you are engaging in "bigoted" right wing argumentation if you claim attack helicopter cannot be a gender.