You Can't Say That (Part 2)
Three of Rowling’s critics on the state of public debates and their evolving views of the author
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Hello listeners,
Today, we continue our examination of difficult public debates, one year after concluding our series, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. In Part 1, we provided updates on women's sports, women-only spaces, and transition medicine for minors. This week, we hear from three different trans individuals who share their perspectives on the state of the debate, J.K. Rowling in particular, and the larger idea that good-faith debates are necessary for progress in a pluralistic society.
Our guests include Jacob Tobia, author of the book Sissy, and listener-favorite Noah, the teenager who shared his gender transition story with us in episode six of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. We also listen and respond to sharp criticism from popular YouTuber and former Witch Trials guest, Natalie Wynn, aka Contrapoints. We do our best to engage in the kind of good-faith debating that we believe in.
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To whom you are attracted sexually is purely subjective and therefore cannot reasonably be contested by an outside observer.
Where you decide to live your life on a spectrum of superficial, stereotypical male to female attributes (and we all do) is also purely subjective and similarly cannot be questioned.
However, your biological sex reflects an objective reality which cannot be changed by your subjective personal view and futile attempts to do so can result in serious health impacts to you as well as harms to members of the sex you are impersonating (primarily women).
Others who are grounded in objective reality should never be forced to accept your subjective version of your actual biological sex.
Finally, it's past time for the LGB community to separate themselves from the trans activists who are trying to take away the rights of women to fairness in sports and to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. They also advocate for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.
Their actions are evil and the
understandable negative reaction to the harm they are causing is spilling over to innocent people who are just going about their business, marrying and leading their lives.
Boy, these comments really went off the rails in terms of commenting about the actual podcast and the major premise of the podcast project, that having reasonable conversations about the topic. From the looks of the comments, not very likely.
First, there are some people that are just flaming bigots that will never change their mind about anything.
On the other hand the other side, no willingness to understand that are a large number of people, perhaps a slight majority of the total population, that are perfectly fine with everybody being able to live their own lives, but have a few questions or concerns about how to reach reasonable accomodations on a few things that get labelled as bigots and transphobes for just asking questions.
So I don't see much hope.
I'm 69 so I saw society go through the change of LGB acceptance in society. Big point there was that LGB just wanted to be accepted by society and have access to what society at large had. T wants more than just that acceptance, T also wants to change society, even though they are a very small % of the population.