"But this current frenzy - this is something else and it has to be rejected. It leaves no room for nuance or sympathy. Hard, demanding, intolerant. Why? Why crush the opposition instead of forging common ground? I’m baffled by the stridently and very turned off…"
Run by misogynist men and/or sexual fetishists.
The true gender dysphorics are about as uncommon as they always were.
"But this current frenzy - this is something else and it has to be rejected. It leaves no room for nuance or sympathy. Hard, demanding, intolerant. Why? Why crush the opposition instead of forging common ground? I’m baffled by the stridently and very turned off…"
Run by misogynist men and/or sexual fetishists.
The true gender dysphorics are about as uncommon as they always were.
And yet the number of teen girls claiming to be "trans" has risen 4000% since 2006.
I remember when the prerequisites for reassignment surgery were very high; a year living as the other gender, passing a stringent diagnosis, etc.; now I read about adolescents going online and getting an eligibility certificate by ticking a few checkboxes, and a counselor who denies the reality of a "trans" claim can lose his job.
"But this current frenzy - this is something else and it has to be rejected. It leaves no room for nuance or sympathy. Hard, demanding, intolerant. Why? Why crush the opposition instead of forging common ground? I’m baffled by the stridently and very turned off…"
Run by misogynist men and/or sexual fetishists.
The true gender dysphorics are about as uncommon as they always were.
And yet the number of teen girls claiming to be "trans" has risen 4000% since 2006.
I remember when the prerequisites for reassignment surgery were very high; a year living as the other gender, passing a stringent diagnosis, etc.; now I read about adolescents going online and getting an eligibility certificate by ticking a few checkboxes, and a counselor who denies the reality of a "trans" claim can lose his job.
This is what the activists have wrought.