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I mentioned yesterday a piece that was in the New York Times about the trans movement and how, well, it has badly just

failed to read the room.

And I sit out a piece this morning, and there are some excerpts of it, and I just, I thought

about it a little more, been digging into it more, and I just, I need to make a larger point here.

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