Lies, Damn Lies, and Lies About Transgender People
http://www.bilerico.com/2014/06/lies_damn_lies_and_lies_about_transgender_people.phpFiled By Brynn Tannehill
6/26/14
In the wake of Time magazine's cover story about the "Transgender Tipping Point," right-wing commentators have been out in force. This includes the National Review, the Wall Street Journal, The Federalist, and others. All of them operate off of the same set of talking points, which are based on groundless assumptions, poor science, discredited research, and straw-man arguments.
The Federalist's Joy Pullmann takes all those talking points, mashes them together, and adds a bit of libertarian-sounding philosophy and Christian persecution myth for good measure. These are intellectual bullies, however. They seem to expect that no one will stand up and actually check their "facts."
But that's exactly what I'm going to do. Let's start with the Federalist blog post. No straw-man arguments here, just their own words.
