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Title: Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points
Post by: stephaniec on September 15, 2015, 07:19:02 PM
Post by: stephaniec on September 15, 2015, 07:19:02 PM
Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/fighting-back-against-ant_b_5633450.html
The Huffington Post/By Brynn Tannehil Updated: 07/15/2015 8:59 am EDT
"Since the publication of Time's recent cover story "The Transgender Tipping Point," there has been a spate of conservative op-eds in retort, including ones featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wall Street Journal, and online on conservative websites such as The Federalist. The attacks follow a predictable set of talking points that rely on the reader having no scientific knowledge of the issue. However, when examined from a perspective of peer-reviewed medical consensus and law, these talking points fail utterly."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/fighting-back-against-ant_b_5633450.html
The Huffington Post/By Brynn Tannehil Updated: 07/15/2015 8:59 am EDT
"Since the publication of Time's recent cover story "The Transgender Tipping Point," there has been a spate of conservative op-eds in retort, including ones featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wall Street Journal, and online on conservative websites such as The Federalist. The attacks follow a predictable set of talking points that rely on the reader having no scientific knowledge of the issue. However, when examined from a perspective of peer-reviewed medical consensus and law, these talking points fail utterly."
Title: Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points
Post by: Deborah on September 15, 2015, 08:41:27 PM
Post by: Deborah on September 15, 2015, 08:41:27 PM
That was a really good article.
Unfortunately it won't convince religious conservatives as their religious dogma is impervious to logic and facts. I have experienced that personally trying to argue many of those points on the Internet with those people. It's like banging your head on a concrete wall. In the end the wall is still standing and you are bleeding.
Once in a while though maybe a seed of enlightenment is planted that will sprout later.
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Unfortunately it won't convince religious conservatives as their religious dogma is impervious to logic and facts. I have experienced that personally trying to argue many of those points on the Internet with those people. It's like banging your head on a concrete wall. In the end the wall is still standing and you are bleeding.
Once in a while though maybe a seed of enlightenment is planted that will sprout later.
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Title: Re: Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points
Post by: suzifrommd on September 16, 2015, 12:07:14 PM
Post by: suzifrommd on September 16, 2015, 12:07:14 PM
Have I mentioned lately how much I love Brynn Tannehill. I want to have her babies.