Gender critical believers
<p>When Maya Forstater won her right to have her personal beliefs about sex recognised by the UK courts, she proclaimed it as a moral victory of sex over gender ideology. That she ended up in court in part because she was part of a private group chat where she exhibited transphobic views often gets lost in the noise, that her personal beliefs are deeply offensive and targeted against a minority who previously could not care less about her. In establishing a new legal belief system she essentially turned the gender critical movement from a fringe movement into a quasi-cult. Maya was only the most prominent woman, the latest in a series of fringe voices, yet her victory sounded the starter gun for a reactionary counter-cultural movement explicitly aimed at stripping back all rights of trans folk in the English speaking world. While trans folk are more-or-less a broad church of views and opinions, gender critical voices are curating an ever tighter circle of “facts”, to the point that any opinion outside those are viewed as heretical. The believers are forming a cult, a sanctioned set of believers who are becoming more extreme.</p>
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