Thread by @realchrisrufo

I disagree. Transgenderism is inherently coercive and, in many states, has the full force of civil rights law that makes "affirmation" a legal requirement. The entire premise is to demand that others deny reality, and, eventually, these questions require a public decision.

https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1960784278385779149

Deirdre McCloskey is a good example. Under DC law, his employer is required to affirm that he is a woman, although he is, in fact, a man. Even if McCloskey does not seem coercive in his personal behavior, the underlying concept eventually requires a public consensus—not to mention the fact that transgender identity operates on the principle of social contagion, which means that men such as McCloskey are setting an example that is not only destructive for them, but destructive for others. Even if you're a Lockean liberal, you'd have to concede that Locke and the founders believed that right existed in accordance with virtue. Only a libertarian, who has shed half of that pair, could argue that men who masquerade as woman is a "natural right."

I asked this question, which, thus far, has remained unanswered, because I suspect that McCloskey's colleagues will not answer it—giving the lie to the idea that transgenderism is not coercive.

https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1960784724668113284