I was recently listening to a podcast where a famous academic was being interviewed about his latest projects, one of which is a publication for "controversial ideas." This isn't entirely unexpected, given that this academic's work has been filled with what are considered by some to be "dangerous ideas."
When asked, the professor said a plurality of the submissions are about transgender issues. I looked up one of the articles and found 22 pages of fancy intellectualizing that basically boils down to: "I don't want to call people by their preferred pronouns."
IOW: "I want to deny certain people basic human dignity."
So this academic, and their editors and publishers, are spending their accumulated knowledge, education, and reputation to aid the persecution of the most persecuted minority in the United States.
This isn't about being "too sensitive" or not wanting to have "feelings" hurt.
In addition to the murders and assaults, the Attorney General of the second-largest state in the country has been trying to create a registry of trans people. Of the three people most likely to be president of the United States in 18 months, one has made overt hatred and persecution of LGBTQ people the centerpiece of his campaign.
So, honestly, it doesn't take "courage" to make the lives of trans people worse by supporting those who want to persecute them further, including beating them "into the ground" and putting them in camps.
(Note: I avoided Godwin's Law and didn't ask if these champions of "Free Speech" would have published scholarly articles on "Aryan Science" and scholarly discussions of "The Jewish Problem" and "The Homosexual Threat to Family and Society.")
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