a thought while reading this: I've often wondered why transgender issues have become so prominent. With all due respect to my friends who
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are transgender, they are a *tiny* minority, with needs and issues that impose much less on the rest of us than other minorities' issues.
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And yet both sides of the culture war seem to be treating transgender stuff as a HUGE DEAL right now, much more worth fighting over than
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other things that affect many more people in much bigger ways. Why? Well, if you want to name something that highlights the difference
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between monism and dualism you can't find anything much better than the question of whether there's a real difference between men and women.
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If you think people can *really be* men or women in a way that is not just an "identification," then you're a dualist, and vice versa.
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If you think people cannot be said to be objectively anything and it's only about how they "identify," then you're a monist and vice versa.
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Both these positions, as Chapman says, contradict themselves and agree with each other in ways they won't admit to. But that only means
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they have more reasons to fight each other. So it seems a nice explanation of why neither side can ignore this set of issues which from
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an outsider's view it seems strange they would care about very much. Not sure it's true, but an idea I had reading
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