Leor Sapir Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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We need a total and complete shutdown of the NEA, period. It's destroying our schools. To understand why, I recommend Terry Moe's fantastic book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools. 1/2 https://t.co/XPe6QdKuaV https://t.co/Bm484utlAc

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How many Republicans at the state or federal level were proposing “anti-trans” bills in 2010, when the federal Department of Education used a “Dear Colleague” letter to define “bullying” as “sexual harassment,” and the latter as harassment based on “gender identity”?

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Hmmmm… can we have a cameraman on hand to record Biden’s reaction when he turns to pages 166-167 of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer? https://t.co/EdjIHXHzp1

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(This thread draws on research from Barry Meier's book, Pain Killer)

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@RussLeJeune Foucault, Intro to Herculine Barbin and History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Butler, Gender Trouble (esp. III.2) Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body Carrie Hull, The Ontology of Sex Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life David Crawford, Gender Identity and Nihilism For starters...

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To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, you are mistaking the doing of your own hands as the work of nature, and then appealing to "nature" ("trans kids are born that way") as justification for your doing. This is not "gender ideology." It's simple, and all too predictable, human folly.

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@RussLeJeune Foucault, Intro to Herculine Barbin and History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Butler, Gender Trouble (esp. III.2) Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body Carrie Hull, The Ontology of Sex Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life David Crawford, Gender Identity and Nihilism For starters...

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To this day no one knows with confidence why some people cross-gender identify. Theories about TG people being "born that way" are just that: theories. See Rogers Brubaker, Trans, a sympathetic treatment, for discussion of why this framing is culturally/politically convenient.

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@RussLeJeune Foucault, Intro to Herculine Barbin and History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Butler, Gender Trouble (esp. III.2) Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body Carrie Hull, The Ontology of Sex Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life David Crawford, Gender Identity and Nihilism For starters...

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This article is full of misleading claims. I wonder if @tanyalewis314 and @sciam would let me write a response in their magazine. Isn’t evidence-based debate the bedrock of science? https://t.co/oqOkolmzFN