This was actually really warming to read. The teachers weren’t sure how to handle this, but the student body was much better educated from other sources, and consistently pressed the school to adopt a more welcoming approach to trans/questioning students. By the end of the article, the school had indeed adopted a better approach.
Kids are the future.
>The visitor used language that the girl believed implied critical theory took precedence over biological reality in defining women.
In one sense… Can we step back and appreciate how advanced society has become that this is now the point of contention? Back in my day it was because someone fucked someone’s girl/boyfriend behind their back or something.
Kind of the issue though. Are schools and 17/18 year olds (or younger!) exactly the best placed in terms of knowledge and education to be having a really in depth talk about this? I imagine if someone had made a big fuss about arguing the toss with Richard Dawkins visiting to talk about Evolution because he didn’t mention Intelligent Design they’d probably get shouted at as well. Same thing really. Critical theory does not override “biological reality” because they are talking about different things. Being a woman is not a biological reality, it is a social reality, it is the experience of being a human in a society in which other humans consider, look at, and think of you as a woman. Being female is a (lot less clearly defined than transphobes would like to make out) biological reality.
This stuff really isn’t hard, I’m not sure what people (and supposedly quite intelligent people!) aren’t understanding about this distinction to have had us all drag this argument out for however many years its been now…
It has never been explained to me why it matters if somebody calls you he rather than she, or vice versa. I don’t understand it, I don’t get it.
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This was actually really warming to read. The teachers weren’t sure how to handle this, but the student body was much better educated from other sources, and consistently pressed the school to adopt a more welcoming approach to trans/questioning students. By the end of the article, the school had indeed adopted a better approach.
Kids are the future.
>The visitor used language that the girl believed implied critical theory took precedence over biological reality in defining women.
In one sense… Can we step back and appreciate how advanced society has become that this is now the point of contention? Back in my day it was because someone fucked someone’s girl/boyfriend behind their back or something.
Kind of the issue though. Are schools and 17/18 year olds (or younger!) exactly the best placed in terms of knowledge and education to be having a really in depth talk about this? I imagine if someone had made a big fuss about arguing the toss with Richard Dawkins visiting to talk about Evolution because he didn’t mention Intelligent Design they’d probably get shouted at as well. Same thing really. Critical theory does not override “biological reality” because they are talking about different things. Being a woman is not a biological reality, it is a social reality, it is the experience of being a human in a society in which other humans consider, look at, and think of you as a woman. Being female is a (lot less clearly defined than transphobes would like to make out) biological reality.
This stuff really isn’t hard, I’m not sure what people (and supposedly quite intelligent people!) aren’t understanding about this distinction to have had us all drag this argument out for however many years its been now…
It has never been explained to me why it matters if somebody calls you he rather than she, or vice versa. I don’t understand it, I don’t get it.