Yes. He is. I absolutely agree with you. he's been quite open about that in fact. I'm not on Matt's side in this. Matt is riding a wave, created by the refusal to talk honestly about some of the things that are happening around gender ideology.

Ordinary people, who don't know enough about trans people to feel anything one way or another, see stories about women being raped in prisons or children getting double mastectomies, they see that it's happening based on these completely incoherent arguments, they see that the doctors performing these surgeries have no qualms about it whatsoever, even though there's a growing community of people (mainly girls) with regrets about their surgery and almost no support from the medical community (and often outright attacks by the trans community), they see all this, and they think, well that's awful. Which it is.

Maybe you're not aware of any of this. Because until now, that's how it's happened. Anybody who said anything about it was demonised as a "transphobe" and everybody else believed them. But that's changing.

As detransitions become more frequent and more vocal, as people like Lia Thomas highlight the fact that male/female elite competition isn't fair, as gender clinics are sued for malpractice, the danger is that people simply flip to the other extreme and say, "okay, I'm not going to differentiate between the needs of trans people and the need to stop these extremes. I'm just going to be anti-trans.” Society isn't particularly good at seeing grey areas after all.

I'm actually trying to make the point about the importance of nuance before that happens. The idea that you either ignore all of this stuff or you hate trans people needs to die. Because ultimately, most people aren't going to stop and think about it long enough to understand.