Recent U.S. laws and regulations restricting medical care and athletic participation for transgender people actually affect more intersex people. Why is this not being discussed?
I suspect the author is a clueless cis person who is attempting to write educational pro-trans articles, but are trying to make their writing “balanced” so as to not be alienating to potentially anti-trans audiences.
Not writing in the most pro-trans way is not necessarily synonymous with having an anti-trans bias, but it’s hard for us to not see it that way since it basically entertains anti-trans perspectives as plausible or reasonable opinions to have, etc. even while trying to gently dismantle those perspectives.
It’s tough to write most anything online because the audience could be anyone and the writer should take that into account. I suspect that this person was writing for a good-faith, academic audience.
though you should know Psychology Today is a consumer magazine, their audience is definitely not academic but rather lay people, a bit like Scientific American
Checkout the author’s other articles:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/contributors/ari-berkowitz-phd
I suspect the author is a clueless cis person who is attempting to write educational pro-trans articles, but are trying to make their writing “balanced” so as to not be alienating to potentially anti-trans audiences.
Not writing in the most pro-trans way is not necessarily synonymous with having an anti-trans bias, but it’s hard for us to not see it that way since it basically entertains anti-trans perspectives as plausible or reasonable opinions to have, etc. even while trying to gently dismantle those perspectives.
<sighs> liberalism
It’s tough to write most anything online because the audience could be anyone and the writer should take that into account. I suspect that this person was writing for a good-faith, academic audience.
yeah, agreed - it’s tough
though you should know Psychology Today is a consumer magazine, their audience is definitely not academic but rather lay people, a bit like Scientific American