{"id":14302,"date":"2024-04-17T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:21:22","slug":"it-takes-courage-to-take-on-trans-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/it-takes-courage-to-take-on-trans-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes courage to take on trans issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Editor\u2019s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our\u00a0Publishing Guidelines.\nDear Editor,\u00a0\nInteresting to read Meredith Doig\u2019s take on men becoming women (or being accepted as having done so) as a feminist issue (RSA Daily, 11 April, 2024).\nI can see how allowing men to occupy spaces that women have been able to win \u2013 both physical, as in safe spaces and shelters, and institutional, as in sport and politics \u2013 is a feminist issue, and I can imagine how such encroachment by men would be alarming and indeed threatening.\u00a0\nI don\u2019t think that because Meredith happens to land on the same side of the argument as those from the Right automatically makes her part of team \u201cconservative backlash\u201d. I \u201cidentify\u201d as a leftie but I also reject the Orwellian restructuring of language that we are seeing.\nMy take is that it\u2019s a science issue. Sex is fundamentally binary (the ability or potential to produce large or small gametes). Denying it is to deny reality.\nMy feeling is: if a man identifies as a woman, and wants to be referred to as \u201cshe\u201d, it\u2019s only polite to do so. I shouldn\u2019t also be forced to accept that the said individual is literally female. They\u2019re not. They\u2019re a man experiencing dysmorphia.\u00a0\nGreat to see Meredith having the courage to engage with this issue. It makes her a target, but she clearly isn't intimidated.\u00a0\nAaron\n&nbsp;\nPlay time or danger time?\nDear Editor,\nI found Jonathan Haidt's four recommen...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <hr style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 1000px !important;height: 5px;border-width: 0;color: red;background-color: red\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h3><em>You're part way through this article. 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