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 believe you to be wrong & your "solutions" to be against the interests of inclusion, fairness and representative diversity in sport." OK.
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"Others will pick up on this and use it against us. I'm surprised that you didn't consider this." Funnily enough, I do consider what I write
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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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Also, your method and other methods can all exist simultaneously. Yours may work to refine some ppl's beliefs and others' to refine others'.
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This is the only way it ever works anyway. Everybody's arguments come together and represent an engine for innovation and refinement.
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