The Vicious Cycle Keeping Trans People Marginalized | TaraElla Clips

This is an excerpt from the article We Need a Normie Trans Rights Discourse by TaraElla.

The best way to argue for liberalism, i.e. for an ordered liberty, against anarchy (including the postmodern kind), is to demonstrate that it works better in practice. This would have to include the accommodation of minorities, so that they have equal opportunity and liberty in practice. Liberalism has won many battles on that front over the years, by advancing women's rights, civil rights and gay rights. The latest battlefront appears to be trans rights. Many trans people feel like the current social order does not treat them fairly, and as a trans woman myself, I think it is fair they feel this way, unfortunately. As a result, a substantial number of trans people have rejected society as it currently exists, and embraced postmodern anarchist ideas. This has made the trans discourse look quite anti-normie in recent years, which has scared away many moderates and liberals who believe in a normie politics. Many people, who previously argued the 'normie' case for gay marriage, have decided that trans issues simply can't fit in a normie politics in the same way, and therefore should be ignored. This attitude has, in turn, 'confirmed' the worst suspicions of many trans people: that normie politics are nothing more than respectability politics, and only the postmodern far-left is their true ally. All this goes round and round in a vicious cycle, serving to marginalize trans people further and further. Moreover, the lack of a mainstream, normie movement for trans acceptance and trans rights has allowed reactionary culture warriors to comfortably target trans people, knowing that they will not get much credible pushback. The lack of a robust liberal response to the anti-trans 'movement' has in turn provided fuel for postmodern anarchists to discredit liberalism, especially in the eyes of Generation Z.

Why a Practical Reformism will Save Trans People | TaraElla Clips

This is an excerpt from the article We Need a Normie Trans Rights Discourse by TaraElla.

As I have repeatedly said, trans people are caught in a philosophy war that has its origins in academia, which has nothing to do with our everyday lives at all. These philosophy wars have hindered public understanding and acceptance of trans people, by taking the focus away from trans lives and onto abstract philosophical questions. On this, the postmodern activists are actually just as guilty as the reactionary culture warriors and the most extreme gender critical feminists. The fact that postmodern activists are more interested in deconstructing gender than actually helping trans people in any tangible way shows that they are not our true allies at all. Liberals have a good opportunity here to expose the weakness of the postmodern arguments, and demonstrate the merits of reformism within the framework of ordered liberty. We simply need to provide a pragmatic pro-trans politics that puts the focus back on the everyday life needs of trans people, and help build the required consensus in society to achieve the necessary reforms. There is a better way to do the trans discourse than what exists currently, and it's up to us to make it happen.

How To Fix the Trans Rights Discourse | TaraElla Clips

This is an excerpt from the article The Importance of Legal Recognition of Gender Identity by TaraElla.

Why Anti-Trans Culture War is Against Common Sense | TaraElla Clips

This is an excerpt from the article The Authoritarian Implications of the 'What Is A Woman' Wars by TaraElla.

To put it bluntly, normal people don't think of chromosomes or gametes when they interact with others. These things are in the realm of expert knowledge, not everyday life. Most people take a 'if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck' approach to determine gender, which is undeniably the common sense position.

Under the 'if it looks like a duck' approach, many people already accept at least some trans women as belonging in the category of 'women', at least in everyday social situations where people are fully clothed. That trans women are genetically male is not even relevant in this most simplistic and most old-school of approaches.

On the other hand, the culture war activists are relentlessly attempting to supplant the 'if it looks like a duck' approach, forcibly complicating things by making people consider chromosomes and gametes where they are not even relevant. In doing so, it is destroying normal people's ability to ascertain and express reality, using commonly shared terms like 'woman' as they see fit.