Having unwillingly undergone a five week intensive exposure to "gender critical" arguments, I've concluded that a disturbing number of them boil down to taking "Ew, trans people ick me out" and cranking that feeling up to, "Trans people are an abomination against nature/God/etc."
Look, there are scientific controversies surrounding the treatment of trans adolescents, but a dispassionate, science-based discussion of how best to medically and surgically treat trans teens is not what the GC movement is about.
Moreover, science denialism is less about how "settled" a given scientific/medical issue is and more about the types of misleading arguments and conspiracy theories deployed against that issue.
Finally, I've now concluded that, if anything, GC activists inhibit, rather than foster, a good science-based discussion of the medical and scientific questions surrounding how best to treat trans teens. They produce far more heat than light.
So a GC advocate quote-Tweeted the first Tweet in this series, claiming that I had never actually read the arguments of GC advocates. My response? The problem is, I *have* read quite a lot of them now.
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