Looking forward to watching this. I think you and Sasha are both great.
I really hope you can box up the Jesse/Katie thing in some way. I listened to their podcast and I have to say they were so wrong about you...they were smug, misleading, and desperate to gain credibility for themselves by undermining someone else (and someone else whose views are, clearly, far closer to their views than TRAs’).
At the same time, I think we need to be prepared for more of this stuff as gender critical thinking continues to catch on. We will see more people wanting to show they understand the damage that gender identity ideology is causing while, simultaneously, hoping to sidestep the onslaught that comes with being seen to go “full terf” (a vain hope, of course). Sadly, I think being shoved in the direction of the bus wheels probably comes with the territory of being someone who saw through this stuff early on and has maintained a clear, consistent line.
As an ‘early adopter’ of gender critical thinking, when you see someone like Jesse/Katie coming for you, Graham, I hope that you can focus on the fact that it’s voices like yours that have created the space for more reluctant and hesitant voices like theirs to be heard, and take something positive from the fact that, in the end, the more people critiquing gender ideology, the better.
This was excellent Graham. I wish everyone could hear your very clear explanation of how setting up TW as a protected or sacred class is very similar to how priests were viewed. I wish that even those who have no interest other than to be supportive to trans identified people (and who are not worried about the effect on women or children eg Owen Jones, Ash Sarkar etc.) would listen to this and think about it. Priests as a whole class, including many many innocent and good men, have been irretrievably tarnished by the failure to treat one class of people as simply human and as much in need of the oversight of safeguarding authorities, as any other group.
Looking forward to watching this. I think you and Sasha are both great.
I really hope you can box up the Jesse/Katie thing in some way. I listened to their podcast and I have to say they were so wrong about you...they were smug, misleading, and desperate to gain credibility for themselves by undermining someone else (and someone else whose views are, clearly, far closer to their views than TRAs’).
At the same time, I think we need to be prepared for more of this stuff as gender critical thinking continues to catch on. We will see more people wanting to show they understand the damage that gender identity ideology is causing while, simultaneously, hoping to sidestep the onslaught that comes with being seen to go “full terf” (a vain hope, of course). Sadly, I think being shoved in the direction of the bus wheels probably comes with the territory of being someone who saw through this stuff early on and has maintained a clear, consistent line.
As an ‘early adopter’ of gender critical thinking, when you see someone like Jesse/Katie coming for you, Graham, I hope that you can focus on the fact that it’s voices like yours that have created the space for more reluctant and hesitant voices like theirs to be heard, and take something positive from the fact that, in the end, the more people critiquing gender ideology, the better.
This was excellent Graham. I wish everyone could hear your very clear explanation of how setting up TW as a protected or sacred class is very similar to how priests were viewed. I wish that even those who have no interest other than to be supportive to trans identified people (and who are not worried about the effect on women or children eg Owen Jones, Ash Sarkar etc.) would listen to this and think about it. Priests as a whole class, including many many innocent and good men, have been irretrievably tarnished by the failure to treat one class of people as simply human and as much in need of the oversight of safeguarding authorities, as any other group.