Ffs. Like I get your point Jennifer, but I am not engaging in cognitive dissonance. I just don’t subscribe to your ideology wholesale and while I appreciate your work, I apparently do not agree with your exact plan of action for countering the harms of gender ideology. Clearly we have differences of opinion on what issues are material. I just have bigger fish to fry and I find value in hearing these individuals’ perspectives and having them as part of the conversation. This is why I am not a rad fem and also do not claim to subscribe to every tenet of gender critical ideology, though I am gender critical aligned.

Some of us are also more concerned about practical change rather than being dogmatic. I also think that those of us who are gay are differently situated here. Our priorities and perspectives will be different. And I believe everyone she mentioned is homosexual so there’s already a little more understanding and compassion I feel for such people. I don’t think hormones and plastic surgery changed their sex, but I am a little closer to their struggles and experiences, and they are hard for straight people to understand.