What is wrong with you @nytimes? It’s not conservative to accept the reality that males and females are biologically different. Every person on the planet was born from a female./1of8 nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opi…
“You’d think that legislation affecting the lives of so many young people would be based on hard research and science.” Yes it is! @WorldRugby cites *dozens* of scientific studies in its decision to keep women’s rugby safe. Sex, not gender, is based on science./2of8
Sneering about “the now-familiar conservative canard that granting equal rights to queer people somehow endangers the womenfolk” is vile. A decision to keep women’s sport for women has nothing to do with “queer people”./3of8
Worst of all, the article repeats what we might call the “queer theory canard”: “is having a trans daughter actually worse, in their eyes, than having a dead son?” Repeating this bogus argument, which has been thoroughly debunked, is shameful and dangerous./4of8
It does seem to be true, however, that some people would rather have a trans kid than one who will grow up lesbian or gay. Kai Shappley’s mother was horrified her “effeminate” child might be gay and tried punishment. At the age of two! Now Kai has been “transitioned”./5of8
In Iran people can avoid prosecution for homosexuality by having a sex change. There are similarities to the mindset that is at work here./6of8
This article shows that conflating LGB issues with transgender issues produces harmful disinformation. Trans people are entitled to argue their case. But so are LGB people. And so are women./7of8
Where there are clashes between the claims and needs of different groups we need respectful, fact-based discussion. We certainly don’t need shrill rhetoric about “bigotry” and “TERFS”. Please help start that discussion by writing to letters@nytimes.com #ProgressiveLGBValues/8of8
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