Prohibited from being

Our new overlords let us know what we’re allowed to think.

https://twitter.com/jlbreslow/status/1455853407223390208

But how is he defining “transphobia”? And “anti-trans behaviours”? And “being transphobic”? What does it mean to say that all are “prohibited from being transphobic”? Is it even true? I don’t think so. I don’t think laws are formulated that way, not least because they would be unenforceable. The law deals with acts, including speech acts; it can’t deal with being. The first Queen Elizabeth said “I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls.” The people who tried to make such windows in the 16th century did it via torture, which is not a very reliable method.

It wouldn’t matter except that Breslow is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the London School of Economics.

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