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Dr. Nathanial Bork's avatar

Sources I’m collecting to include in my future article on this subject (Please send any recommendations you might have):

https://www.newsweek.com/new-homophobia-opinion-1698969 (Gay man who is concerned about transgender activism)

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557

CS/CS/HB 1557: Parental Rights in Education Bill (dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill by critics)

https://legiscan.com/MO/text/HB2649/2022

Similar Oklahoma bill.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/policy/florida-advises-against-gender-affirming-medical-or-social-care-transgender-kids (article recommended on Twitter by National Center for Transgender Equity.

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While you have presented a practical objection, you have not presented a philosophical one, which is more fundamental to the right-wing position:

* The 'gender spectrum' is a false construct that conflates biology and sociology. While some men may be effeminate, they are still (and will always be) men.

* Transgender ideology presents the issue as if empirical biology, and subjective sociology, are complementary, peer-level concepts--or even worse, that the subjective sociology is more "real" than the biology, when in fact the opposite is true. This is an epistemological error of such magnitude that it will poison children's ability to reason clearly and logically in many unrelated areas, possibly for the rest of their lives.

* Gender dysphoria is a mental illness which affects fewer than 1 in 10,000 adults, and while those people should be treated compassionately, the disconnect they experience between their biological realities and sociological expectations is not a cognitive model that should be normalized any more than teaching children that morbid obesity is a body identity that they can achieve if they eat 20,000 calories of sugar every day.

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