I think if you were able to post a poll you would find that very few of us are even remotely interested in "win[ning] over the hearts and minds of the trans-activist community."
I will offer my own view: I have no such intention. On the contrary, I want this community crushed, speaking figuratively. I want its activists shunned and shamed…
I think if you were able to post a poll you would find that very few of us are even remotely interested in "win[ning] over the hearts and minds of the trans-activist community."
I will offer my own view: I have no such intention. On the contrary, I want this community crushed, speaking figuratively. I want its activists shunned and shamed, I want the prescribers like Michele Forcier ("does a chicked have a gender identity? (smile)") and the vagino/phalloplasty surgeons behind bars for decades.
I want the concept of gender to have no place in psychology, medicine or law.
And yes I feel obligated to make this as plain as I can.
I regret using the term "trans activist" in my post. I agree the odds of winning over ideologues of any kind is a tremendous challenge. I should have said, "our progressive neighbors." My MSNBC and NPR compatriots have not thought about this issues like we have, and (as we all know) tend to be quick to take offense. These run of the mill progressives are persuadable if you can create space for engagement and avoid alienation. My point is really about strategy and respecting those with a different approach to the same goal.
What goal would that? Kindly “affirmation” of “trans” kids?
I’m against that
My goal is the final end of any and all hormonal and surgical treatment, the only treatment recognized as ethical being psychiatric reconciliation with biological sex.
That’s my goal, and it yields nothing to the Anthony Reeds or the Michele Forciers or the Queer Theorists or the Genderbread Man.
I did not think I needed to clarify that. My goal is the exact same as yours. As I said, my comment is about respecting a diversity of strategies towards our common goal.
I think if you were able to post a poll you would find that very few of us are even remotely interested in "win[ning] over the hearts and minds of the trans-activist community."
I will offer my own view: I have no such intention. On the contrary, I want this community crushed, speaking figuratively. I want its activists shunned and shamed, I want the prescribers like Michele Forcier ("does a chicked have a gender identity? (smile)") and the vagino/phalloplasty surgeons behind bars for decades.
I want the concept of gender to have no place in psychology, medicine or law.
And yes I feel obligated to make this as plain as I can.
I regret using the term "trans activist" in my post. I agree the odds of winning over ideologues of any kind is a tremendous challenge. I should have said, "our progressive neighbors." My MSNBC and NPR compatriots have not thought about this issues like we have, and (as we all know) tend to be quick to take offense. These run of the mill progressives are persuadable if you can create space for engagement and avoid alienation. My point is really about strategy and respecting those with a different approach to the same goal.
What goal would that? Kindly “affirmation” of “trans” kids?
I’m against that
My goal is the final end of any and all hormonal and surgical treatment, the only treatment recognized as ethical being psychiatric reconciliation with biological sex.
That’s my goal, and it yields nothing to the Anthony Reeds or the Michele Forciers or the Queer Theorists or the Genderbread Man.
I did not think I needed to clarify that. My goal is the exact same as yours. As I said, my comment is about respecting a diversity of strategies towards our common goal.