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Chad's avatar

Interesting.

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WaltFrench@EarthLink.Net's avatar

Seems “politics makes strange bedfellows” was inspired by a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest. So I'm surprised you suggest that Old Timey R-vs-D politics matters but a modern assault on individual identity by Teh Hard MAGA Right isn't what dominates many people's feelings about gender issues.

I am one of those people. The facts about gender are what they are, and I have no particular insight into them that ordinary science and history haven't spelled out. (E.g., that medicos somewhat arbitrarily ascribe or conforme a large fraction of newborns are into fitting our binary worldview, and that there are multiple spectra of physiology and emotions at play that the whole world, rather casually / unseriously, likewise pretend are permanently shoehorned into exactly one of the two pigeonholes.

It is unsurprising that conservatives would object to new science, new understandings of psychology and new social movements associated with gender issues. But that doesn't make it useful to advance their points while ignoring the importance of the new views

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