Category: Trans

Screenshot of YouTube video: How to Combat Wokism: A Conversation with Peter Boghossian

He says your academic evidence is ‘laundered’

If you believe oppression is real, Peter Boghossian doesn’t think your academic work is real. Conservatives ask for their feelings to be validated and for “Western Civilization” to be saved through intellectual debate. Can we meta-debate that?

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Skeptical of trans people above all

They could have been skeptical of science denialism and supernaturalism instead. Some theories, beliefs, and agendas are false, and their falseness merits skepticism. But trans people are real. We shouldn’t be the object of skepticism.

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Once again, it’s not about sports

Why trans allies objected to Seth Moulton’s comments last month. This ‘idea’ is not fully baked because it’s not consistent even about whether it would regulate adults or children. This is not about sports.

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Anti-trans feminism since the 1960s

After a couple of recent essays by Sophie Lewis chronicling this movement. Particularly because the anti-trans movement is fond of suggesting that trans people sprang into existence yesterday, I’m fascinated with timelines.

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YouTube still of the video: Should TERFs unite with the Right? It shows both panelists, Bindel and Joyce, with the moderator, Florence Read. They're seated in chairs with a bookcase behind them.

Would you work with the ‘Alliance Defending Freedom’?

A 2022 Bindel–Joyce debate in which Joyce calls my gender ‘an attack on the whole institution of civilization’. She thinks she’s preserving ‘the Enlightenment,’ ‘evidence,’ ‘stable meanings,’ ‘how you do science’, ‘the whole institution of civilization.’

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