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Thanks for a thoughtful commentary. The lack of coverage by the Canadian media, the National Post excepted, is concerning and the fear of retaliation on social media in particular is to blame. Hopefully the changes that have occurred in Finland and Sweden and especially the debate in the U.K. will prompt a discussion in Canada. It will help if the emerging LGB Alliance can continue to grow , leaving the TQ to fend for themselves. I can’t help but feel that the average voter not involved in transgender issues, lumps the LGBTQ, as the name implies , into one block. It is up to us to highlight the effect on self declaration on female rights and that there be law suites that challenge the lack of any clinical guidelines that empathises psychological care of gender dysphoria.

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Great article laying out the current situation in regards to bringing gender issues to the attention of a wider audience. Thank you.

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I think we need to form a group -- "Democrats for Gender Sanity"?-- (or something like this) to BREAK the BS narrative that it's a R vs L issue. In fact, it's an 'informed' vs 'disinformed' issue.

The LW is more disinfomed because the way Gender was sold in the US was as a progressive civil rights issue, via capture of LW institutions, & billed as a suicide lowering measure.

Everyone over 50 is easy to "peak." Having lived in "pre-gender" times we can see how cockamamie it is.

We really need LW visibility on LW media. People appearing on Tucker Carlson are preaching to the choir and LW people easily dismiss RW sources.

Maybe we need a sit in at 30 Rockefeller Plaza-- to shame MSNBC into actually covering this?

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Always worth waiting for. Thinking about a tribunal happening in fits and starts where the woman being disciplined by her college has experienced outrageous attempts to disqualify her expert witnesses on the most spurious grounds imaginable, while the witness for the other side is given a free pass. I think that your observation about swing voters was spot on. As always, thanks for your thoughtful analysis.

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