Personally think "gender studies" is a load of bollocks.And I'll just keep coming back to this: the validation of gender dysphoria and transgender identity was not done by a shady cabal of misogynistic males in a back room somewhere.
Rather: plenty of females - and not just any females, but actually females who are extremely well-educated, well-informed, and highly expert in the very fields of medicine which are directly relevant to this issue - will have contributed to the evolution of medical thinking wrt transgender identity (and, as a direct consequence, the need to enshrine and uphold transgender rights in law); and plenty of other highly-educated, highly-experienced and highly-skilled females will have sat on legislative committees and helped formulate governmental policy and legislation in this area.
I, for one, don't doubt that these very women will be fully cognisant in the historic oppression of women, and the levels of oppression and imbalance which still (regrettably) exist today. Yet they were apparently able to contextualise this successfully when they affirmed both the validity and rights associated with transgender identity. And I, for one, would take their conclusions any day over some of the opinions being mooted within this thread.
It is a flowing beast. Some say "spectrum". Some try to label every single one and end up with a form table with about 40 different options.
Rights of those not in the fitting your normal ying and yang categoru is the issue.
As a bloke I don't really care as long as it doesn't mess with females rights.
Edit: sorry by don't care. I meant trying to adhere to as much as possible within reason
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