Trans Issues: Trans People and Anti-Trans Academics

trans issues: In the real world, it still not that unusual for discussion of trans* issues to devolve into a "balanced" debate between pro- and anti-trans* academics over whether they exist at all, without any context like actual trans* people being present to discuss their lived experience of, well, existing, according to Rabble. In the real world, there are real problems about who gets to speak, and how widely they can be heard, and the marginalized are often not given much voice to matters that affect -- and are specifically about -- them. That the first thought that crosses my mind in the case of University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, who declares in a series of You Tube videos that he will not honour trans* peoples' chosen pronouns, and opposes trans* human rights protections, all in the name of combating "political correctness." Of course, that would be an ideal world. In fact, the established and prolific voices in today media are more often quick to reject attempts to "inflict" change, or energetically create a lopsided portrait. Rather, it is something that is dependent upon access to favourable platforms, and is usually pre-emptively muddied by characteristic value judgments made about the speaker class, gender, race, etc. Speech is not a truly universal and equitable thing in the first place. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.