'The gay rights movement was a clarion call for freedom and equality. In the best American tradition, it asked for nothing more than Don’t tread on me. The trans rights movement demands much more. Among other fundamental claims, it wants society to replace the ineradicable genetic markers of sex with a limitless number of perceived genders, to allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports, and to allow pre-pubescent children to decide to alter their chemistry and bodies.
This is radical and sweeping stuff. People who support these claims should be free to argue their point. But casting this debate as a moral issue pitting the enlightened against the haters – as the latest iteration of America’s long battle for basic civil rights – is willfully misleading.
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