Stephen Woodford has a popular YouTube channel called Rationality Rules, advertised as a place to “debunk and refute predominately religious and supernatural arguments.” In August, Woodford invited science teacher Forrest Valkai to his channel to critique
I only lasted 17 seconds watching that first video with the science teacher before having to type a long rant in response. You have a lot of fertile ground there to plow, good luck!
If any of these people had a tenable defense of their ideas, they'd have presented it. Instead, they often use emotionally coercive tactics that harm the people they force them on, and don't achieve sustainable progress in the process. I suspect many people look at the trajectory of the advancement of LGBT rights and hedge their bets that trans rights will win big like gay rights (justifiably) did, and like the idea of being able to claim some degree of responsibility for having advanced the movement. Of course, that's not compassion. It's self interest in a compassion kimono and seems to come with large societal costs and its progress unlikely sustainable.
I listened to Wilfred Reilly's podcast with Phil Illy, a man who has transitioned but doesn't claim it made him a woman and who also does research on auto-heterosexuality (autogynophilia). I'd really like to hear him discuss ideas with someone from the TRA community. Pete, your podcast with Debbie Hayton was also really good. She'd also make an excellent addition to the conversation.
I can't help but wonder how much more prevalent non-trans TRAs are than trans-identified people participating in activism. My uneducated guess is that it's an order of magnitude or greater, but I've been wrong plenty of times before. I hope Stephen reaffirms his desire to discuss the issue and you all have a productive convo because that's what I think will lead to sustainable societal progress.
Followup: I will be sitting down with Stephen and Colin soon!
Is this still around the corner Peter? Or on indefinite hiatus?
I only lasted 17 seconds watching that first video with the science teacher before having to type a long rant in response. You have a lot of fertile ground there to plow, good luck!
If any of these people had a tenable defense of their ideas, they'd have presented it. Instead, they often use emotionally coercive tactics that harm the people they force them on, and don't achieve sustainable progress in the process. I suspect many people look at the trajectory of the advancement of LGBT rights and hedge their bets that trans rights will win big like gay rights (justifiably) did, and like the idea of being able to claim some degree of responsibility for having advanced the movement. Of course, that's not compassion. It's self interest in a compassion kimono and seems to come with large societal costs and its progress unlikely sustainable.
I listened to Wilfred Reilly's podcast with Phil Illy, a man who has transitioned but doesn't claim it made him a woman and who also does research on auto-heterosexuality (autogynophilia). I'd really like to hear him discuss ideas with someone from the TRA community. Pete, your podcast with Debbie Hayton was also really good. She'd also make an excellent addition to the conversation.
I can't help but wonder how much more prevalent non-trans TRAs are than trans-identified people participating in activism. My uneducated guess is that it's an order of magnitude or greater, but I've been wrong plenty of times before. I hope Stephen reaffirms his desire to discuss the issue and you all have a productive convo because that's what I think will lead to sustainable societal progress.
Here’s someone saying his biological essence has literally changed because he declared himself a female.
https://youtu.be/-Fb48tivB-0?si=SkRNppt6sphJWenJ
Game, set, and match, Woodford.
very excited for this!
It’s the “Henry Rogers Effect” (tm)