Kathleen Stock is a philosophy professor. Her writing is careful, accessible and compassionate. Her latest essay tries to do justice to all sides of the arguments on gender identity and explores constructive solutions for protecting everyone’s rightshttps://quillette.com/2019/04/11/ignoring-differences-between-men-and-women-is-the-wrong-way-to-address-gender-dysphoria/ …
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My experience: I tried to get my article published by organisations with an interest in gender and developmenthttp://medium.com/@MForstater/international-development-lets-talk-about-sex-eb9de927c787 …
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@cgdev said no (and I lost my job for wanting to talk about this topic). The@ICRW said its “not the right fit for us”. I tried it with the@LSEengenderings. They said no. I sent the link to Ranil Dissanayake for his Friday round-up, but he didn’t run it and so on….Show this thread -
Or take another sector: human rights
@Rights_info ran a series of articles last year about debates on the GRA but excluded any analysis by gender critical legal experts@adamwagner1 Amnesty says there is nothing to say on women's rights in relation to gender identity lawsShow this thread -
All of this has the effect of giving onlookers the impression that there is no legitimate argument to be had. Because if there was these progressive respectable orgs would surely have made space? Because thats their job…..
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And it makes it harder for those who have understood that there are real issues to speak up. It allows the debate to remain toxic, while those that could detoxify stand back and say ’see why we don’t want to get involved in that’ (and aren't those women angry?)
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But courage calls to courage, while cowardice cowers. So read Kathleen’s article and share it. Because thats how walls come down.
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