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Disagreement is not hatred

Malik, Kenen
http://kenanmalik.com/2018/11/26/disagreement-is-not-hatred/

Publisher:  Pandaemonium
Date Written:  25/11/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.

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In Britain, the government's consultation on proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act ended last month. At its heart was the question of whether trans people can decide for themselves what should be their legally defined gender.

For trans people, the freedom to define themselves is vital. To question, as many feminists do, whether a trans woman is 'really a woman' is, activists insist, to threaten the individual's identity. It does irreparable harm by subjecting trans people to mental trauma and giving succour to violent bigots. 'I deeply resent the idea that my identity gets to be 'debated' in the first place,' wrote the American activist Jennifer Finney Boylan.

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