so do these Insightful Cis Intellectuals also dismiss quantum field theory as a reality-distorting cult ideology because it contradicts basic facts they learned in middle school and appears to be very inconsistent with certain measurements of the physical world when taken in specific contexts?

after all, compared to something as simple as gender identity deviation, QFT is on pretty shaky theoretical ground

or quantum electrodynamics, which despite being tenuously understood at best, describes mechanisms that are fairly important to modern semiconductor IC design

there's a certain willingness to say "heck the fundamental theory, it's good enough if it works" for this sort of thing

except when it comes to the bodily autonomy of people who make them uncomfortable, suddenly they all become staunch believers in the ~Objective Nature of Reality~

electrons tunnel across barriers when the electric field is strong enough: "wow, weird right? we might never know why that happens but it's pretty cool and you definitely can't ignore it"

some people don't neatly fit the arbitrary set of criteria that attempts to sort every person who ever lived into two categories: "I'm sorry, you need to provide me with rigorous theoretical and philosophical justification for this under my terms, or I'm going to assume you're lying"

nobody actually thinks they have to understand everything all the time, but as soon as they think they can successfully shout down people whose existence makes them uncomfortable, they act like clear, prompt understanding is a basic human right that they are owed

it's not impressive

one of the most important lessons we've learned over the last few years is that logic is not appropriate for use as a weapon

if your goal is to win a debate, then you're not using logic; that's deceit you're holding

if you're actually trying to convince someone of what you know to be true, then logic will never help you unless they already want to believe you from the start

this is why we only ever write these posts as choir-sermons, as it were

if we tried to engage the actual transphobic assholes, we'd get nowhere, because we're The Enemy and they will neither seriously listen to anything we say nor lend us any sincerity in their own arguments

but you, you sometimes actually listen to us, because you are willing to believe that we aren't trying to fool you into believing lies. sharing our thoughts with you is a far better use of our energy and time, and a far less demanding one at that.