Last week the NY Times published an article about trans activists under the amusing headline “Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach.” Here’s how it opened.
After a Democratic congressman defended parents who expressed concern about transgender athletes competing against their young daughters, a local party official and ally compared him to a Nazi “cooperator” and a group called “Neighbors Against Hate” organized a protest outside his office.
When J.K. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex and biology was “deeply misogynistic and regressive,” a prominent L.G.B.T.Q. group accused her of betraying “real feminism.” A few angry critics posted videos of themselves burning her books.
I pointed out that the author, Jeremy Peters was downplaying the reality experienced by people like J.K. Rowling who…
