I think you've done a magnificent job of tackling a difficult issue. Only quibbels, I had to look up PMC (professional managerial class?) and Magnificat Socialist, which it turns out, also describes me.(I used to say, "Dorothy Day Socialist.")
Wish I could unsee some of the photos but that's getting to my suggestion. You've put in so much work, added so many layers, footnote links and related perspectives, that reading through your whole long opus felt a bit like being inside a giant single cell that's just about to divide. You might want to think about rewriting/editing (copying and pasting) into two separate essays. One with a much narrower, simplified focus on the sex/gender issue and another with a much more open and wide ranging look at the many ways we're all being perpetually set up to be beefing and quarreling amongst ourselves. That could be a separate piece, on its own. Without the photos of the medical gruesomeness. This old episode of Star Trek is what came to mind, while I was reading:
Stan, this is just about book-length itself, but the link you include that says "a book-length monograph" actually (as of this comment's time stamp) just directs to the wikip article on Tina Beatty.
Also thank you for the warnings re. the surgical photos.
more later, possibly, after i have digested the whole arc of the piece.
Took me three days to get through this (I had to have breaks to soak up what I was reading) and so glad I did. Your ability to lay things out logically is a real gift! (BTW, your link to the discussion by two women with autism leads to a deleted video.) Thank you for all your hard work and superior brain power laying all of this out… I am planning on sharing this post with people in my life who think I’m “transphobic” because I take issue with compelled speech, children being transitioned, and biological males intruding on women only spaces including locker rooms, prisons, and competitive sports. Really, really appreciate you Stan!
I think you've done a magnificent job of tackling a difficult issue. Only quibbels, I had to look up PMC (professional managerial class?) and Magnificat Socialist, which it turns out, also describes me.(I used to say, "Dorothy Day Socialist.")
Wish I could unsee some of the photos but that's getting to my suggestion. You've put in so much work, added so many layers, footnote links and related perspectives, that reading through your whole long opus felt a bit like being inside a giant single cell that's just about to divide. You might want to think about rewriting/editing (copying and pasting) into two separate essays. One with a much narrower, simplified focus on the sex/gender issue and another with a much more open and wide ranging look at the many ways we're all being perpetually set up to be beefing and quarreling amongst ourselves. That could be a separate piece, on its own. Without the photos of the medical gruesomeness. This old episode of Star Trek is what came to mind, while I was reading:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
Stan, this is just about book-length itself, but the link you include that says "a book-length monograph" actually (as of this comment's time stamp) just directs to the wikip article on Tina Beatty.
Also thank you for the warnings re. the surgical photos.
more later, possibly, after i have digested the whole arc of the piece.
Took me three days to get through this (I had to have breaks to soak up what I was reading) and so glad I did. Your ability to lay things out logically is a real gift! (BTW, your link to the discussion by two women with autism leads to a deleted video.) Thank you for all your hard work and superior brain power laying all of this out… I am planning on sharing this post with people in my life who think I’m “transphobic” because I take issue with compelled speech, children being transitioned, and biological males intruding on women only spaces including locker rooms, prisons, and competitive sports. Really, really appreciate you Stan!