OP Opinion: I don’t like the article title.
TLDR: What does focusing on DNA have to do with bathrooms? An academic & too polite “use your brains dumb asses”
Samantha Rosenthal is Associate Professor of History at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, and Visiting Assistant Professor of American History at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She is the author of two books, most recently Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City. She is co-founder of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, a nationally recognized queer public history initiative. Her work has received recognition from the National Council on Public History, the Oral History Association, the Committee on LGBT History, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Working Class Studies Association.
The whole thing is such a nothing burger, with a side of dumb fries.
Everything that’s brought up about bathroom usage is based on bullshit and/or ignorance, not sensible concerns. It’s all fantasy, no facts.
Edit: because it’s the internet, I’m talking about the objections to trans people having access to bathrooms that match their gender.
It’s such a clear example of politicised science.
Creating a system of biological categorization for living organisms? Sweet. That’s just science.
Using that system to justify hurting people? Oof.
This is, and always has been, a people problem. It has nothing to do with science.