Too many other groups who regard gender self-identification as harmful are insisting on expressing their worries and stating their needs. Less obviously, negotiation is in trans people’s interests. The ‘with us or against us’ approach taken by activist groups that claim to speak for them is very harmful to their long-term interests. This is already obvious when it comes to inclusion of transwomen in women’s sports, which strikes most people as grossly unfair, and in the ideological approach to paediatric transitioning, which risks positioning trans people as careless of children’s long-term
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