Comments by two Daily Wire pundits were undeniably venomous and cruel
It’s true that militant trans activists can be deaf to the harms experienced by other groups — but many gender critical voices take this as licence to adopt the opposite extreme and simply demonize trans people.
There are important conversations to be had about trans athletes, women’s prisons and pediatric gender medicine, among other things. While the current maximalist approach to trans rights is untenable, pushing back on that does not, in any way, justify blanket hostility towards the trans community.For example, the United Kingdom discovered that youth who self-identified as trans wereThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
These kinds of solutions, which seek reasonable compromise, are harder to achieve when extremists use inflammatory and hateful language. While gender critical voices are quick to condemn extremism within the trans community, it’s equally imperative to condemn voices within their own camp that see trans people as less than human.
Resorting to black-and-white thinking is easy — but we should strive to be better than that and embrace difficult and uncomfortable conversations. Those who seek only to “humiliate and demoralize” the other side are guilty of intellectual and moral laziness.to show that criticisms of trans activism are not inherently hateful. By keeping criticisms fact-based, focused and fair, gender critical voices can build trust and minimize unjustifiable damage to the many legitimate parts of trans rights.
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