This is an attempt to create a clearinghouse of bad faith transphobic arguments with well-researched, easy responses to the most common arguments.
Core
- How transphobes abuse the scientific method. This page endeavours to explain how transphobes abuse the scientific method and how their claims not only don’t stand up to scrutiny but fail to have predictive power. You can use https://yay.ee/tg/science/ to link to this page.
- No, trans people are not “pretending”. Cis people often claim that trans people are “pretending” to be the sex/gender we actually are. This article is about debunking this claim. Coming soon.
- The Prevalence of Transgender People. This will be an analysis of the prevalence data concerning transgender people. Coming soon.
- Yes, there is a trans genocide happening. In this article, we examine both the academic and legal definitions of genocide to demonstrate how transphobia has risen to the level of genocide in both categories of definition. Coming soon.
Biology
- Chromosomes don’t make trans women “male” – This debunks the notion that trans women are somehow “male” due to the assumption that we all have XY chromosomes. Coming soon.
- Gender variance in the animal kingdom.
Health
- Being transgender is not a mental illness – You can use https://yay.ee/tg/mental/ to link to this page.
- Infertility doesn’t mean a woman stops being a woman.
- The presence of a penis does not make a woman male.
- Yes, trans men can and have gotten pregnant.
Social
- Trans rights do not compromise women’s rights. The TERF argument that rights for trans women somehow compromise women’s rights is entirely baseless. Coming soon.
- Trans women are more likely to be victims than perpetrators.
Sports
- Trans women and girls have no advantage in sports to justify discrimination. The evidence simply does not support the claim that trans women and girls have an advantage in sports or that bans against trans women and girls are in any way justified by anti-doping rules. Coming soon.
- Discrimination against trans women is for the same purpose as the colour line in baseball. In this article, I seek to compare the parallels between the laws and rules discriminating against transgender girls and women in sports and the Gentlemen’s Agreement that kept black people out of major and minor league baseball from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Coming soon.
- No, trans women are not “stealing” medals. Sites have misrepresented trans women competing in competitions as “stealing” thousands of medals. These same sites also misrepresent those trans women as “male”. The goal is to debunk this claim. Coming soon.