Having unwillingly undergone a five week intensive exposure to "gender critical" arguments, I've concluded that a disturbing number of them boil down to taking "Ew, trans people ick me out" and cranking that feeling up to, "Trans people are an abomination against nature/God/etc."
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Replying to @gorskon
Even quite a few of the "scientific" concerns tend to be driven by covert ideological legacies in medicine (or medical personnel). People so center their gender as part of their identity that gender changes are hard for them to understand, it's like a religious belief in a way.
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Replying to @fifilamoura
I've gotten a crash education over the last five weeks, to be sure, and am a bit embarrassed now that I had previously paid so little attention to these issues.
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Replying to @gorskon @fifilamoura
I too went through an unexpected intensive crash course a few years ago, about a subject I really hadn’t paid a lot of attention to. Ended up being a couple years of boot camp from which I emerged w/ a VERY clear understanding that trans girls are girls, and trans boys are boys.
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All you need to do is spend time with trans kids to understand that. Also - non-binary kids are exactly who they say they are. Adults too.
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Well, I'm learning now, and what I see in a lot of the skeptical movement with respect to certain prominent members whom I used to admire falling for bad science, bigotry, and misinformation has appalled me.
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