She hung around a hospital in Manhattan for 15 months.

You are a reasonable person who accepts reality.

Bridges and her fellow leftist activists want the ordinary person to accept concepts that deny reality and to shut up because any questioning or disagreement equals violence.

I think at this point the vast majority of people would be willing to live and let live. But they are not willing to deny reality and/or to shut up if they disagree with some of the more radical things the left is demanding.

I am a woman, and to an extent allowed by current medicine, female. I do NOT have the correct chromosomes, but hormonally, physically, emotionally and psychologically, I am. BUT when I go to the doctor I inform them of the “biological reality” that while my recent mammogram was necessary (at 64), I ALSO need an occasional PROSTRATE exam. I don’t pretend otherwise.

Except the average person on the street, in stores, while traveling doesn’t need to know my biological history – I only ask (as do the MAJORITY of us) that you look to our presentation to determine where we fall on the binary.

We don’t change our gender – therefore, transgender is inaccurate. We change our sex, the physical attributes of our body’s representation of biological sex – therefore transsex(ual) is the correct term. And yes, my birth certificate reflects my current sex and name. But I had to have surgery to obtain that.

As someone who has an interest in ethnography and considers it an important piece that lends itself to coloring American life in general, I think she was at her strongest when she wasn’t entirely influenced by the Woke secular religion that we see today; sometimes being “just liberal” is alright – it won’t necessarily impede on ones potential. But now, as an established academic? She’s not working in her wheelhouse and it shows. She’s simply repeating the rhetoric of the LGBT+ gospel of Wokeness. From Spelman to Columbia, she could’ve fooled everyone in that she received her education from The Daily Beast and Tumblr. It’s a shame. Everything that goes Woke turns to shit.

A mature adult learns that the first step toward wisdom is recognizing one’s ignorance, foolishness and tendency to err. That science is never settled. As the Royal Society affirmed centuries ago — no one has the last word. Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy.

Having acknowledged that one can err, the mature adult affirms that others may well disagree in good faith. And that our shared humanity requires all of us to treat each other with grace and respect — even when we disagree.

This professor is not a mature adult. She’s a toddler.

Full court press against reality.

I object also to the misuse of “phobia” to mean criticism or disagreement.