Holly Lawford-Smith

ICYMI -- all twelve lectures for THE PHILOSOPHY OF FEMINISM are now available @ my Y/T channel 👇🏼

published in a top-5 philosophy journal earlier this year, the publication likely career-making for its junior co-author:

"Everyone wants their gender identity to be respected, and cisgender people typically have their gender identities respected as a matter of course."

unstated & unargued presuppositions: everyone has a gender identity; when 'cisgender' people say they are men/women they are making a claim about gender identity not a claim about sex.

one of the referees (normally anonymous but in this case acknowledged): talia bettcher.

reality's last stand is hosting a debate between @stellaomalley3 and i, about genspect's current campaign to repathologize trans identification. there is a reader poll you can vote in before you read, and at least with colin's audience, genspect's position is the one to beat!

for GC friends in the UK facing the prospect of conversion therapy legislation, here's a short thread of videos from when this was happening here, in case they are helpful!

my interview with lawyer kath deves about the victorian legislation:

youtu.be/iYRewYXuJ1w?si…

spencer case responds to the philosophy discipline report—the last of the discipline-specific reports that followed the main WSU/vanderbilt report on the state of the humanities—contesting the authors' claim that things are mostly fine in philosophy. link 👇🏼