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The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
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.
Caroline’s ordeal began six months ago when she appeared on a TV show called Good Morning Britain
Quillette Podcast 10
Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
It wasn’t that these women cross-dressed to be men. It’s that they cross-dressed not to be women.