Destroying Everything in the Name of Progress

in the real world, the usual course of action is simply to smear transmedicalist ideas as 'harmful', for example by linking them to non-acceptance of non-binary people, which is clearly groundless.

While not all of us who seek a facts-based approach to trans issues and/or see trans identity as rooted in biology are 'transmedicalists', or necessarily agree with their point of view, the broad smearing of 'transmedicalism' impacts all of us, because the ultimate goal is to remove any connection between transness and biology, perhaps even to make any such discussions taboo. Which is why I have essentially taken up an anti-anti-transmed attitude in recent years. While it is OK to point out the flaws of transmedicalist arguments, it is not OK to extend this to complete denial of the biological basis of gender identity, and the centrality of gender dysphoria to the trans experience.

Destroying Everything in the Name of Progress

One aspect of critical theory thinking has been especially controversial. A recurring theme in critical theory and its associated activism is the idea that almost everything is a social construct, and all such social constructs must be dismantled for the sake of liberation. Why would this be the case? And is it justified?

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