Orthodox Scholar Links Medieval Nominalism to Modern Gender Ideology

What was said

"If things don't have essences, well, then they don't actually have genders, right, objectively, because everything is just a name. So I can just name myself he, him, Zer, Z."

Jay Dyer argues that the 14th-century philosophical doctrine of nominalism—which denies objective essences to things—created an intellectual pathway from medieval theology through the Enlightenment to contemporary gender theory. He traces how rejecting inherent natures in favor of linguistic labels enabled Martin Luther's theology and ultimately modern claims that sex and gender are mere social constructs.