Gender affirmation means listening to children's stories about who they think they are, Dr. Michelle Forsier says. For feminists like Helen Joyce, this is a stark reversal of a century of women struggling to be perceived as more than their body parts. If gender is all about how you feel on the inside and how you express yourself, why would anyone put themselves through the ordeal of transitioning?
In this special episode of the Michael Shermer Show Dr. Shermer comments on current events surrounding trans matters and reads his in-depth essay on the subject, originally published as one of his regularly Skeptic columns on Substack.