Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic: What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights - The New York Times

( Researcher1536 )
The election gave people the breathing room to finally start speaking out and up about all this gender crap. People aren't afraid of being socially and financially sacked by expressing common sense facts. So much tongue biting and swallowing feelings occurred over the years. Now reality can hopefully return to the forefront, even if it's currently being drowned out by TRAs screeching about trans genocide and how trans is connected to abortion and women's rights.

( ArtemisCitrine )
I read this op-ed twice and still don't get how trans rights are reproductive rights, as she asserts.

Not to be mean, but butch lesbians who transition late in life always look to me....not very bright. A young confused lesbian....I'll cut her slack. But this person is supposed to be a major intellectual.

( camino_medio )
She's glomming onto a popular point among leftists (reproductive rights) and working her arguments in from there. Fairly standard for the pro-gender ideology side, but her writing and arguments on the subject have always been embarrassingly disjointed to the degree of being bizarre.

( dasehe )
tldr; she's arguing that all objections to trans rights boil down to a cultural anxiety to force women to keep churning out babies. Trans rights break that paradigm - some of her argument acknowledges the sterility issue but 90% of it is "look, Putin is all for traditional family values and he hates LGBT and this is true of Trump and Vance too, therefore these issues are clearly linked."

If trans rights break the cultural anxiety to force women to keep churning babies in half, then defense of trans rights is no less than defense of reproductive rights.

I can kind of see where this comes from because I know some academics still tying themselves in knots, but I just feel her analysis misses a lot of things.

( faerieclaire )
I don’t understand either, unless she’s saying that since adults have the right to sterilize themselves, children should have the same right??? Which, obviously, no they shouldn’t