Actually these are mostly things that stayed open in my tabs from last week that I just got around to reading but they’re great:
Always read (and subscribe to) Helen Joyce:
This is a standard liberal argument: that one person’s liberty to swing his fist ends where the other person’s nose begins. But I also think that if it became clear that while you could identify as whatever gender (or indeed anything else) you liked in your private life, your self-identification would make no difference to your rights in public places, fewer people would transition. The very idea of identifying as a member of the opposite sex is specific to modern, Western culture; in most of the world, and throughout history, it would have made no sense. It is ridiculously naïve to think that the spread of this idea has not encouraged trans identification, or to think that a return to sex-realism in the public square would not discourage it.
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