...in a new video on YouTube. She makes a few good points, and is funny as usual, but it's not in the end a good-faith engagement. Among other rhetorical tricks, she associates (and cites) garbage from Reddit (!) threads on transgender issues with the Gender Critical position, but nowhere actually engages actual arguments of Gender Critical feminists and philosophers. And by the end, she devolves into the usual mindless rant against feminists one has come to expect from activists. Opportunity lost, but perhaps not accidentally. As a piece by Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine recently noted:
[The Gender Critical] argument...seems to me to contain a seed of truth. Hence, I suspect, the intensity of the urge to suppress it....The [central] argument is that viewing “gender identity” as interchangeable with sex, and abolishing clear biological distinctions between men and women, is actually a threat to lesbian identity and even existence — because it calls into question who is actually a woman, and includes in that category human beings who have been or are biologically male, and remain attracted to women. How can lesbianism be redefined as having sex with someone who has a penis, they argue, without undermining the concept of lesbianism as a whole? “Lesbians are female homosexuals, women who love women,” one of the speakers, Julia Beck, wrote last December, “but our spaces, resources and communities are on the verge of extinction.”
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