What if the Standard Left-Wing Position on Trans Issues Was to Support Evidence-Based Care But Skip All the Cultish Bullshit? - by Jeff Maurer

some guy in the comments seethes about it:

I don't know a single person who holds the position that "s*x doesn't matter." I'm pretty far left, especially for Idaho. I don't hold that position (yet I still agree with the points made by Jon Stewart), and I don't think that Stewart holds that position. You claim that he holds it, even though you admit that he never actually said that. I'm currently reading "Evolution's Rainbow" and Joan Roughgarden doesn't believe that ... a trans woman scientist.

The argument you presented at the end of your podcast as the position that people on the left should take is almost exactly what I experience almost every lefty possessing.

I think you missed the mark on this one, big time.

We're living in a world where the right is denying that trans people even exist as actual things, and are working hard to make them suffer ... and you go after a strawman misreprentation like "s*x doesn't matter?"

Here's the thing ... the extremism is on the right. Their measures will cause people to die. And yes, in response to that, sometimes those on the left will adopt a position that is somewhat more left than warranted by science. So the frick what? We're trying to counter the actual problem in society. Maybe pushing a little bit harder than is warranted by science is actually warranted by the necessity of preventing harm. When society solves this problem, we will arrive at a position that is 95% of what Jon Stewart proposes.

You might be right that the science is being misrepresented by the left. I won't disagree there. I will argue that the left's playing of the science is much less serious and much less harmful than that done by the right.

we're actually going FURTHER LEFT because kkkonservatives are killing trans people by not letting them give kids puberty blockers, chud! NO ONE SAYS S*X DOESNT MATTER*

*except in sports, pushing for countries to drop transition in order to change your birth certificate and wanting lesbians sucking girlpeepee