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Alice's avatar

Thanks for the great read. I'm a veteran of what you called the "Truscum Wars" and the fact that my side (the "transmedicalists") lost has probably been the most devastating thing that has happened to the transsexual/transgender community in many decades.

There was a brief honeymoon period after Obergefell where it seemed like society had come around to the idea of a rare, highly-selected class of people for whom there was a mismatch in their gender presentation and biological sex, but that period has obviously ended thanks to the overreach of trans activists and their ironclad refusal to accept any boundaries on their movement, such as the reasonable idea that a person's sex matters in some scenarios (sports, doctor's office) and not others (school, workplace).

Self-ID, as you noted, turned out to be fairly disastrous in allowing both deliberately bad actors and misled people experiencing other mental conditions to be grouped into the previously highly-selected class. Unfortunately, as the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria have become so watered down and most psychologists and doctors will diagnose anyone for any reason (via informed consent), this is no longer a useful way of separating the "true" trans from those experiencing other afflictions.

I'm looking forward to part 2 and your policy proposals.

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David Chapman's avatar

I find this very sensible. (Speaking, fwiw, as a person who is arguably non-binary, bisexual, and intersex; or arguably not in each case, depending on the arguer's ideological commitments; and who suspects that these peculiarities are linked by more than coincidence.) I look forward to the second half!

I am curious about what motivated you to write this. Of course that's probably a private matter. However, it's an analysis that it seems would require a great deal of careful thought about a subject most people form quick opinions about; and that is likely to occur only if one has skin in the game.

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