Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Kevin Beck
When you hear someone say "Trans men are men and trans women are women" you are hearing the identity liberal equivalent of "Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins" - a creedal formulation that is less about making an empirical statement and more about signaling your moral commitments. In formal terms, both statements suffer from the same layers of confusions and in both cases to argue the obvious silliness of the creedal statement serve to make you look like the jerk for insisting on sense over moralism. Committing yourself to empirical absurdities is an ideal strategy for showing you are really, really, really committed to the assumed related moral imperatives. This stuff is so, so similar to religion I can't get how neither the religious nor the gender identity activists aren't ashamed of the comparison to their mortal enemy.
I hope the prostate cancer facts would maybe wake up some of these alleged pseudo-feminist “journalists” advocating against protected women’s spaces and fair play in sport. Refusing to provide accurate and appropriate medical care is currently a hotly debated concern for those who suffer from depression and anxiety alongside the gender dysphoria. As I have consistently stated, mental health matters, and what you point out, rightfully, is that this entire situation brings forth how great of a need it is, specifically with counseling those afflicted by these diagnoses. Inaccessibility to healthcare is truly one aspect of insufficient treatment, and it is incredibly disheartening to watch many indulge and enable delusions when it is more appropriate to receive vital healthcare.
When you hear someone say "Trans men are men and trans women are women" you are hearing the identity liberal equivalent of "Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins" - a creedal formulation that is less about making an empirical statement and more about signaling your moral commitments. In formal terms, both statements suffer from the same layers of confusions and in both cases to argue the obvious silliness of the creedal statement serve to make you look like the jerk for insisting on sense over moralism. Committing yourself to empirical absurdities is an ideal strategy for showing you are really, really, really committed to the assumed related moral imperatives. This stuff is so, so similar to religion I can't get how neither the religious nor the gender identity activists aren't ashamed of the comparison to their mortal enemy.
I hope the prostate cancer facts would maybe wake up some of these alleged pseudo-feminist “journalists” advocating against protected women’s spaces and fair play in sport. Refusing to provide accurate and appropriate medical care is currently a hotly debated concern for those who suffer from depression and anxiety alongside the gender dysphoria. As I have consistently stated, mental health matters, and what you point out, rightfully, is that this entire situation brings forth how great of a need it is, specifically with counseling those afflicted by these diagnoses. Inaccessibility to healthcare is truly one aspect of insufficient treatment, and it is incredibly disheartening to watch many indulge and enable delusions when it is more appropriate to receive vital healthcare.
Kathleen Stock has this David Roche guy's number in her piece today. https://unherd.com/2022/04/five-rules-for-dealing-with-transactivists/?fbclid=IwAR3Dt4jKVWMVYLP0hc8EjvUwAR_3AX0MadwJHMvhc7bGO-fENjpW3c6sJIQ