‘Is’ and ‘ought’: How the American trans rights movement failed, and the tenuous path back to a limited success

I have drafted this essay literally dozens of times. As long drafts my head, as an op-ed that got a very polite rejection letter, as various stale drafts on this blog, as a Mastodon thread I never posted, as an audio essay I never posted, as a video essay I never made. It started out as a commentary on the Dylan Mulvaney clusterfuck in 2023, built around the idea that trans visibility had been a bad thing. In the two years since, it’s become clear that that then-edgy take was in fact an […]

https://essays-by.tamz.in/is-and-ought-how-the-american-trans-rights-movement-failed-and-the-tenuous-path-back-to-a-limited-success/