Our church launched a new podcast yesterday. Interesting to see some quick Day 1 statistics. As a longtime podcast listener I just default to thinking about the download count. But social sharing was mostly via YouTube, and the YT video has 2x views compared to our downloads.
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[Link] Pushing an Anti-Trans Agenda is Telling On Yourself
I appreciated this post from Todd at anarch.dev yesterday: Pushing an Anti-Trans Agenda is Telling On Yourself. He outlines eight common anti-trans argument patterns and briefly responds to each of them. For flavor:
But what about the children? you think you better understand the needs of a child than professionals and the people who know and love the child…people who are willing to endure a lot hardship together. Petty tyranny strikes again. Also, this reason is usually a cover for one of the other reasons. We can tell because you haven’t done much of anything to address the much more numerous and grave harms to children, but are now fixated on this alleged one.
No lies detected.
Some of my favorite responses were at the end, including to the objections “But sports…”, “It’s not natural”, and “It’s against my religion”. It’s a quick read, and something I think I’ll bookmark to just refer back to from time to time.
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