I have some thoughts that are just my thoughts on shutting down debate, I’m not a trained person.

The reason there is no debate is because what they want is so completely illogical that they can’t actually debate it in any real way, in terms of gender identity anyway. I think a lot of the prevention of speech is due to social media, which ironically allows each person a voice that they use for groupthink. Also I think a lot of the gender identity people quite literally have nervous systems that are in fight or flight a lot, and it’s hard to think and speak from that emotional space. I wouldn’t be able to debate if I always felt personally attacked either. “Triggered.” We laugh about being “triggered” but it’s a really miserable thing to go through and these people should have been helped with calming that nervous system response before they were given the okay to trans anything. Also, many people yelling at other people in these arguments are quite young and inexperienced in living in the world.

In the last 20-30 years the way we communicate has radically changed. With social media platforms like twitter and Facebook, but especially twitter, people are engaging in instant and ceaseless attacks on individuals or their workplaces, organizations etc. We are not used to handling personal disruption at that level. In our entire history as a species we have never had the power to connect this many individuals into the same network at once, with pictures, videos, words, but we have also never been so alone and touch-starved.

People are grouping together to feel a part of something, especially people who have lacked a voice in the mainstream for the last century. It’s like separate ideological groups have literally become Borg cubes. Lol. It’s actually really interesting despite it being so horrible. I don’t remember right wingers being particularly openly to free speech that was not their own typical opinions, and if the major media companies were owned by right wingers we would be seeing the same shutdown of debate from them.