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Thank you for your essays and especially the list of resources. Your approach is very similar to mine. My ROGD daughter has been “trans” since the beginning of 8th grade and yesterday I moved her into her freshman dorm. I had suggested to her that since nobody knows her she had a golden opportunity to let go of the trans identity without losing face. She hated this and rolled her eyes, etc. We live in Florida where in the public universities’ housing is based on sex, not gender identity. I said her roommates and their parents might be weirded out by her trans-identity (she looks like a sloppy not necessarily masculine female). To my absolute shock and delight she introduced herself with her real name. I heard her say it 5 or 6 times to different people we met. She also did not hang up her giant trans flag. Could this really be happening??? Sorry to get off-topic but I just had to share with people who I know will understand this.

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Thanks for sharing the great clip of the teacher helping a kid to learn critical thinking skills through analyzing the JK Rowling tweets. I think that could be super helpful for the teens still in high school. This kid, being not an idiot and having life experiences in his own sexed body and around many other people he has known through his entire life, admits that he must agree with the teacher that "sex is real." That is the whole basis of thought from gender critical feminists such as Rowling, as well as other people fighting this ideology. But as a young person encounters queer theory in college or on the internet, this dialectic approach will likely not work because queer theory is a whole 'nother game. "Queer theory" is not about rational critical thinking and is not even really a theory of any kind. The whole point is to use word games to actually SUBVERT rationality and critical thinking, which is also seen as connected to other bad things like colonialism and white supremacy. Queer theory starts with premises that cannot ever be questioned or analyzed, such as "trans women are women." In queer theory, sex is not real, it is a "social construct."

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