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are unnecessarily rigid. Now, this is a genuinely difficult and interesting discussion which ultimately is about truth--how fluid is gender and could cultural changes significantly alter how transpeople experience the world. Once you peel away the nonsense, there are deep /3

and important conversations to be had, which can be grounded at least in part on actual research. This is the kind of thing that easily gets lost in college students shouting down opponents. And classical liberal ideas about rights aren't necessarily sufficient for dealing /4

with issues like this, which involve deep debates about social norms. You could make similar cases for race and gender issues. /end

Assume I already get that some gender fluidity is highly conserved and that some of gender is socially constructed. Assume I got that a million years ago. What is the function of pretending that all gender and sex in a k-selected species is abiological and socially constructed?

Where is any real payoff coming from taking social justice and making it bigoted, anti-science, anti-free Speech, radically relativistic, non constructive, blood thirsty, authoritarian, intolerant and utopian? Where does the benefit of the ‘upgrade’ to cultlike behavior reside?

I don't think there is any benefit to the cultlike behaviour or the complete denial of biology and other extreme positions. Seems to me it's just a consequence of a social movement with strongly held ideas. I think the best way to deal with this is to understand it well enough /1

to distinguish the good from the bad. /end

Uri we‘re not progressing intellectually here. My contention is that social justice had an update pushed out. The issue isn’t “social justice”, but that the update was extremist. The reasonable stuff was there before. The update was to make it authoritarian, bigoted, and vicious.