Welcome back to Thomas Popperi. I think one of the conversations we're not doing really well on right now

is this debate on transgenderism. You cut that out now or you'll go home in an ambulance.

Yeah, that seems mildly inappropriate for a political discussion. There are at least three

features of the debate that I think would be surprising to an outsider learning about it for the

first time. First, it's an area where

we should be agreeing quite a bit, but we're really not. Some debates are hard because two different

groups just want incompatible goals. You've got to balance the interests of business, say,

with the interests of the environmental protection groups. Those debates are tricky because we

have different goals. We've got different outcomes we're trying to achieve. But here, in a real sense, both sides of the trans debate are pursuing the same goal. We're wanting the same thing. We want what is best for people who are struggling with gender dysphoria. We want what's best for people who feel like their psychological gender doesn't match their biological sex. We want people to feel at

home and at peace and their bodies. And we can forget that this is what people on the other side

want too, but it is. Second, there's a kind of radicalism in the trans movement that even the

movement's allies find alarming. The New York Times, for instance, recently observed that the LGBT movement

had abandoned its successful strategy of pursuing incremental legal and regulatory wins in favor of a

radical and unsuccessful gender ideology and arguing that sex change operations should be available

to small children. To take just one example of this kind of radicalism, there's been something of

a turf war between transgender activists and old school feminists, but the old school feminists take

the position that biological men can't be women. Now, for that view, trans activists have been

calling them turfs, which is short for trans exclusionexclusionary radical feminists,

suggesting that such a view is outside the mainstream.

Spoilers, it's not.

And so in 2023, the London Trans Pride Parade invited a violent, convicted criminal to speak

who proposed this solution for dealing with such stubborn women.

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