Material Girls by Kathleen Stock review — the ideas that frighten the trans bullies
by Emma Duncan, The Times:
[…] So how did the ideas of trans activists spread from the gender studies departments of American universities to the loos of British schools? Largely, in Stock’s view, through powerful lobby groups and progressive guilt. Stonewall, the most important of those groups, having won its long campaign for gay rights, was casting around for a role…
…Thus we arrive at a position in which lots of institutions buy into a set of ideas that aren’t just nonsense to many people, but are also rather threatening. The idea that the sex you were born with matters is pretty fundamental to the way we see the world. When government bodies deny that the words “man” and “woman” mean what most people think they mean, the effect is not to change the meaning of words, but to undermine trust in those institutions — and trust in institutions is essential to our society. Language is important. Ideas are powerful. Philosophy matters.
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