Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Kenin M. Spivak: SCOTUS Must Restore Sanity on Gender (via the Skrmetti Case)

100% agreed.

This "gender" madness is the most insane thing I've seen in American politics in my life.

Though I'm rather frustrated with both our major politico-cultural factions, there is just no way to reasonable argue that they are equally loony. The blue faction has gone completely off the rails. The red faction, for all its myriad flaws, is mainly just trying to walk back the illicit and irrational gains made by the blues over the course of the last decade. One side wants to sexually mutilate children on the basis of an incredible, fantastical, preposterous bit of Lysenkoist pseudoscience that originated and was incubated in the intellectually weakest and most highly-politicized sectors of academia. And, we should add: that almost no one had even heard of a decade ago.
   In the ten years since, no even vaguely plausible arguments have been offered in support of the view. Its authority, such as it is, rests almost entirely on shrieking, insistence, ad miseracordium arguments, ad hominems against its opponents, and the testimony of ideologically captured organizations like the APA. We are told, of course--as is the M.O. of the left--that trans ideology is beyond question, so cannot be questioned. It is so ironclad that only a bigot would even consider criticizing it. But this is, of course, absurd. Gender ideology is perhaps the least-likely-to-be-true and the most poorly supported major idea of the last century.
   The more prima facie implausible an idea is, the heavier the burden of proof its proponents much carry. But in the case of gender ideology/pseudoscience, we begin with a wildly-implausible, perhaps even logically inconsistent idea for which no even remotely sound arguments can be produced. If we've ever been warranted in rejecting an idea, we are warranted in rejecting this one.

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