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Douglas Murray's Spectator column this week is on the male Oxford professor who wears huge prosthetic breasts to teach. This paragraph cracked me up. Archived column: archive.vn/pTwqw

You've avoided nearly all of my questions, Norah, because you're literally incapable of answering them. Your mind is firmly closed to any evidence or facts that undermine your preferred narrative. You consider it immoral for anyone to even question you, even though you voluntarily and confidently entered this discussion. You're like a flat-earther. Nothing I or anyone else says to you will permeate your stubborn quasi-religious beliefs, because to change your mind would take away a core part of your self image, which is as somebody who is kinder and better and more righteous than the nasty people still advocating for the safety of women and girls. You repeat your thought-terminating clichés and unevidenced assertions, which I assume sound clever inside your echo chamber, but which, outside it, make you appear not only dim, but a total moral vacuum. Increased risk to females? Who cares. Women threatened by violence? Of course those poor trans-identified men lash out when they meet resistance! What is a gender identity? You can't really say, but like the flat-earther, you're sure it exists, because your tribe is held together by belief in it, and pride themselves on their blind faith in it. I keep waiting for a single gender ideologue or trans activist to truly engage with the facts, but all of you sheer away from them like horses from fireworks. It truly is like talking to cult members who're incapable of engaging in rational debate and just keep chanting the mantras, consigning all serious questions to the 'evil' bin. I've been told I'm on the wrong side of history thousands of times. By debating people like you, I've come to realise that your ilk's idea of the 'right side of history' means stripping women and girls' of their rights, excusing male violence against women, siding with those issuing death and rape threats and attempting to suppress critical thought and freedom of speech. Maybe, like the flat-earthers, you genuinely think history will vindicate you. I believe people will look back on this period and analyse your arguments, not because they admire them, but because they're trying to fathom how so many supposedly intelligent people fell, hook, line and sinker for a bunch of vacuous, post-modern, pseudo-intellectual cobblers, while being completely indifferent to the real world harm they were enabling.

Right now I am being sued for defamation by a person who works in a clinic that gives cross sex hormones to teens, and I have been charged with a communications crime by the met police. These are two separate things. I have a crowdfunder for the former but not the latter. If you like what I do buy a jumper or enamel pin or donate. I guess the answer to the question, if not you, then who? Is me, it’s me.

Defending trans ideology makes smart people stupid, scrupulous people unscrupulous, and honest people into liars. Once you see it, you can never unsee it -- and you will never not see it, because it is always, without exception, what happens. It cannot be otherwise because defending the most self-evident bullshit ever enshrined into law is beyond the capacities of even the most brilliant person, and there is no way to persist in it without recourse to sophistry and lies. When you tell someone deeply invested in their own goodness that membership in the sorority of the good requires them to defend the worst nonsense of the age, the result is always a scandal of some dimension. This is the most comically picayune of all such scandals, but it shares in common many key aspect of the great ongoing scandals that has left thousands of confused children sexually dysfunctional, sterilized, and on a medical leash for life (in addition to being explicitly aimed at the propagation of that scandal.)