[Andrew Szilvasy]

Mark,

There's no world in which people who are trans don't face more prejudice than people who are gay (except in Iran). 13 to 18 year olds who are now recognizing that they're trans suggests there has been progress, but this is among a younger cohort.

There is more-widespread-belief-than-we'd-like-to-believe belief among adults out there that people who are trans are just mentally ill people playing dress-up. Noted liberal JK Rowling is out there making decisions that could actually harm trans people; I think you'd struggle find anything similar to this to cis-gendered gay people.

[Aaron Novick]

Mark, I brought up climate change because I think the right has a playbook for generating controversy where there is none, and it's being applied in both cases. I wasn't suggesting that you are a climate change denier. I'm sorry for being misleading. I really do think that the British gender critical crowd has about as much intellectual power and genuine evidence behind them as your standard climate denialist or creationist.

I'm sorry if I touched a nerve in saying that you're susceptible to the optics of reasonableness. I don't mean it to be condescending, merely a diagnosis of where I think you go astray. I mean it with the same friendly spirit that I take it you meant it when you suggested that I reduce genuinely complex issues to blinding moral certainties.