Just like young-earth creationist views are,” and that the gender critical view is a “legitimate alternative … no more than anti-semitism is a legitimate alternative to the acceptance of Jewish people.” The trans philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell, for example, has tweeted “‘Gender critical’ beliefs are worthy of respect in a civilised society. People who deny this deserve no more respect than climate change deniers, anti-semites or homophobes. For them, trans women are women, trans men are men, period. Even to describe it as an argument with two sides provokes outrage, for there are many who insist there is no debate to be had. Such is the tangled and fractious nature of the current debate over trans rights. Kathleen Stock believes that trans people “deserve to be safe, to be visible throughout society without shame or stigma, and to have exactly the same life opportunities as non-trans people do.” So you might be surprised to find out that Stock, a gender critical feminist, is regularly denounced as a transphobic “TERF” – trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, by Kathleen Stock (Fleet), $26.99/£16.99 Julian Baggini reviews Kathleen Stock's controversial new book.
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