The Trans Case Against Queer Theory

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How This Trans Person Sees Trans Jokes I want to talk about a controversial topic: trans jokes. Let's get some background first. People have been saying trans jokes, like, forever. I mean, stand up comedians essentially recycle the same jokes again and again until they aren't even funny anymore, that's just what they do, right? Based on this, I thought that trans jokes were just going to eventually die out simply because they're not funny for anyone anymore.

But somehow, trans jokes have become a big controversy, in the stand up comedy scene, in a way I honestly never expected. Just like I never expected we would have two consecutive US Presidents older than the one before. And just like I never expected that one day people would become addicted to their phones. And honestly, it's not what I wanted to see, either. I mean, there are enough controversies around trans issues, I don't think we need this too. I'm sick and tired of being a political football. Or should I say, political basketball, because we are thrown around quite a lot these days.

Another thing is, some things are like, the least said the better. There's this old saying that you shouldn't rub salt into a wound, or something like that, right? Perhaps those people, who aren't trans themselves but make a big deal out of every perceived trans injustice, should take note of that.

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Conclusions

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pages 169-170

The Key to Winning Trans Rights

2min
pages 165-167

Exit the Trans Culture War?

1min
page 168

Compassion Builds Bridges

3min
pages 156-158

How This Trans Person Sees Trans Jokes

1min
pages 163-164

Pronouns and Free Speech: A Trans Woman's View

4min
pages 159-162

Chapter 7. Building Bridges to End The Trans Wars

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page 155

Lessons from the Gay Marriage Movement

2min
pages 152-153

We Need to Provide a Better Alternative

3min
pages 148-150

We Need to Raise Awareness About The Problem

2min
pages 146-147

Political Considerations Must Not Get in the Way of Good Science

1min
page 138

How to Tame The Beast: The Lessons of Recent History

1min
page 145

The Return of Critical Theory Radicalism, From 2008 to the Present

3min
pages 142-144

The Medical Science Case for Trans Accommodation

2min
pages 136-137

It All Started with a Historical Accident

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pages 139-141

Chapter 6. The Anti-Postmodern Case for Trans Acceptance and Rights

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pages 132-133

Wish vs Reality: A Trans Perspective

3min
pages 129-131

What is a Woman (or a Man

7min
pages 119-125

Is Gender A Social Construct? A Deeper Dive

3min
pages 126-128

The Case for a Trans Empiricism

4min
pages 100-104

On Trans Rights, Let's Not Get Distracted By Philosophical Questions

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pages 117-118

Trans People Are Not An Ideology

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pages 97-99

Chapter 5. Re-building a Facts Based Trans Discourse

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Trans: A Scientific View

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pages 105-116

Are All Social Constructs Bad?

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pages 92-93

Destroying Everything in the Name of Progress

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page 89

Chapter 4. The Ideological Distortion of What Being Trans Means

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pages 80-81

Further Reading

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When Reality Itself Becomes A Social Construct

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pages 90-91

Intersectionality: The Coalition That Critical Theory Built

2min
pages 77-78

Why Many Trans People Are Still Unhappy

2min
pages 86-87

The New Radical Feminism that Critical Theory Built

2min
pages 75-76

Trans Issues, Radical Feminism and Critical Theory

8min
pages 39-45

Why a Trans Echo Chamber Full Of Postmodern Theory is Unhealthy

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pages 48-53

Chapter 3. The Broader Context of the Rise of Critical Theory and Postmodernism

3min
pages 59-61

The Marcusean Influence on LGBT Activism

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pages 73-74

Why We Should Consider Postmodernism Within the whole Critical Theory Tradition

3min
pages 68-70

The Problem with Media Representation of Trans People: De-centering of Dysphoria

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pages 46-47

How Current Trans Activism Limits our Models of Possibility

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pages 54-58

The Philosophy Wars Over Trans Lives and Truth

4min
pages 35-38

Why Queer Theory is Bad For Trans People

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pages 14-20

Introduction: How Theory Harms Trans People and the LGBT Community

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pages 8-12

Queer Theory is What Has Come Between LGBT and Free Speech

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pages 21-24

Chapter 1. Queer Theory: The Core of the Problem

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page 13

We Don't Need to Erase Differences to Gain Acceptance

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pages 30-33

Why Gender Performativity Is Wrong and Anti Trans

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page 29

Chapter 2. How Queer Theory and Adjacent Philosophy Theories Harm Trans People

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Why Trans and Queer Theory is Skewed and Unrealistic

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pages 25-28
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