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Left Going Too Far Over Graphic Gender-Identity Book and Enabling Gender Transitioning Behind Parents’ Back, Liberal Columnist Says

June 21, 2023

Left-wingers demanding extreme positions and ostracizing those who don’t agree are driving ordinary people to align with social conservatives, a liberal columnist for The Boston Globe says.

Kat Rosenfield, a novelist, uses a conflict over including the book Gender Queer in school libraries as an example.

“Once you’re haggling over whether an illustrated sex act is dictionary-definition pornographic, surely you’ve already ceded the point of whether it’s appropriate for children,” Rosenfield writes in the column published Wednesday, June 21.

Rosenfield laments a left-right divide in the United States that she says leads some members of one side to identify with whatever members of the other group are against, even if what the other side is against is inadvisable.

“The reactionary bent of our current political discourse has led progressives to adopt various positions that most people simply don’t find persuasive and that many would be reluctant to vote for. Organizing third-graders into racially segregated affinity groups, deriding things like literacy and punctuality as “white supremacy culture,” enabling the social transitioning by teachers of gender-questioning children without their parents’ knowledge:  These things make normal people nervous, and you can only shut them down with shrieks of ‘racist,’ ‘fascist,’ or ‘transphobe’ so many times before those words lose their power,” Rosenfield writes, with links in the original.

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