Now have a trans activist asking 'how on earth are we going to walk this back?' abt my latest essay. *We* are not. *You* can just disagree.
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I cannot fault the way she approached me. She was polite, started with the good bits & assumed my good intentions. Ideal way to engage.
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But in (correctly) assuming I want to support the rights &inclusion of trans people in all areas of society,she gets dictatorial abt methods
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I am not willing to cherry-pick evidence to support a cause nor to dismiss the reasonable concerns being raised around it.
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Apart from anything else, this is a surefire way to undermine any good cause. We can't read everything through one perspective pragmatically
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There is certainly room for pragmatism in achieving ends that will defuse the tensions & reduce the polarisation. This does the opposite.
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This is certainly relevant experience but she insists I take her as sole authority rather than link summary of disagreement among scientistspic.twitter.com/Tw6uOXj5uH
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Ignoring fact she seems to think I am trans, this objection looks solely at kids whose gender dysphoria will continue & neglects the rest.pic.twitter.com/Dt6njo5OK1
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When we did speak quite clearly about this being true & important but not justifying non-trans kids being 'collateral damage.'
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This is the problem with 'our aim.' It must take into account disconfirming evidence & the rights & freedoms of everyone else.
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Otherwise, we just splinter off into different groups making different arguments using different studies &no-one ever compares or negotiates
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We see this a lot with the anti-sex-work feminists & pro-sex-work feminists. They both wave confirming accounts of sex-workers at each other
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And then accuse each other of not listening to or caring about sex workers. How can that ever achieve anything?
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When looking at them all together, it becomes clear that there are women coerced into sex-work & abused & women willingly plying a trade.
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And that the problem is not sex-work itself but people & situations which take away women's choices and agency & we need to tackle those
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