@lxo

I hope you will eventually understand that being concerned about women's rights, gay rights, evidence-based medicine, scientific principles, and freedom of speech, do not make someone "transphobic."

(Those are the reasons I criticise the transgender movement. From what I've seen, the same goes for @quasi@peister.org.)

This frivolous use of "transphobic" that's used to end discussions and bully people leads to nobody taking the word seriously anymore outside of certain echo chambers. Please don't contribute to that.

Overall, this "new puritanism" (as Andrew Doyle calls it) within left/liberal politics is likely to have been a major contributing factor to Trump's recent win, to so many young people in Germany voting AfD (far right), and so on. More and more people are seeing "liberals" and "leftists" as a bunch of clowns because of these issues. And I can barely fault them, because it is almost comedic how often discussions are being shut down with frivolous accusations of bigotry now. The average left/liberal activist has become no more rational, no more open minded, and no more tolerant than right wing activists at this point.

As someone who's considered himself left wing and liberal all his life (since childhood, really) I find it deeply sad to witness.