How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
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Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.
There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.
Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all.
But it does mean that arbitrary factors, such as whether one is born into a wealthy family or happens to be part of some historically elevated demographic, should not determine where people end up
The crime of genocide is typically investigated and litigated with the goal of holding genocidaires accountable for their crimes.
Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.
Many liberals—including feminists and lesbians—have been cowardly in calling out this noxious phenomenon, for fear of being called transphobes.
Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.
The progress of Muslim reformers, dissidents and apostates is hindered by leftists that use cultural relativism as a basis for their activism.
Speech is unconscionable regardless of the principles a person is made to parrot. Today, we are being told to promote “equality, diversity and inclusion.
Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.
The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.