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The "Transgender Moment" Jumps the Shark

New York magazine elevates a journalist with a deeply troubled—and troubling—history to trans icon status

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Cathy Young
Dec 24, 2021
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Most Americans today support transgender rights and transgender acceptance as a matter of basic fairness and equality. I do too. Everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, sex, or mismatch between biological sex and gender identity should be treated with dignity and live free of bigotry and discrimination. The problem is that transgend…

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