Time to post some of the responses Oliver Lennard received from GCs on Twitter back when he posted
his stupid Transphobia video where he unironically claimed that transness can be explained through metaphysics:
Oliver's Transphobia video was such narrow-minded bullshit. He thinks that the only people who oppose transgenderism are feminists like Sheila Jeffreys and transmedicalists like Ray Blanchard. PhilosophyTube then conflates the gender critical position with transphobia, because he only follows SJWs and has no idea that there are plenty of transpeople who are themselves gender critical - or, as Oliver would say, delusional metaphysisists. He then namedrops Ray Blanchard without explaining what he did to deserve the namedrop and also namedrops Sheilla Jeffreys as examples of a transphobic academics to earn brownie points from the SJW contingent. The fact is that Blanchard has actually treated transpeople as a gender therapist and had them under his care, whereas Jeffreys is just running her mouth in a book, yet Oliver pretends that these wildly different academic positions are one and the same. According to Oliver someone who has actually had hundreds of transpeople under his care and has observed and studied them closely over many years is the same thing as some opinionated feminist with no direct experience with transpeople as patients or otherwise. So much for Oliver's own lack of rigor, but then again, he is not an academic himself, he's just a parttime actor in London running his mouth on Youtube.
The most striking aspect of Oliver's video is that he still doesn't get the difference between sex and gender. Those of us who do understand the difference between the two also understand that you cannot "perform womanhood", you can only perform femininity or masculinity. The difference between sex and gender is at the heart of the gender critical position and when you don't understand that difference then you don't understand what the gender critical position is. Something else I noticed is that Oliver has a video about transphobia, a video on homophobia being irrational, but no video on misogyny. How the fuck can you even begin to understand what transphobia is if you don't understand what misogyny is first? (As trans activists themselves have even argued?)
Honestly what the hell does metaphysical skepticism have to do with the garden variety of transphobia? People obviously aren't transphobic because of some skeptic philosophical position. Any philosophical explanation they might have for being transphobic is just something they come up with afterwards to rationalize and justify their kneejerk reaction to transpeople. People are transphobic because they think transpeople look/sound/act weird and they just have a visceral kneejerk reaction to them that basically comes down to "ew, this looks icky and weird, it has something to do with sex or fucking and scary shit like hospitals and cutting up body parts and I don't like it because it's so plainly disgusting and disturbing to think about.". There really isn't much more thought that goes into it, it's just a visceral reaction people have to something that looks scary to them. Trying to create a link between such a reactionary gut-level response and some philosophical position like skepticism is such a stretch. Just come out and admit you are a extremist relativist already, and admit that this extremist relativism makes you no different from the Nazis you claim to oppose. There is literally no difference between someone adopting an extremist relativist position and saying: "Gee, maybe the Holocaust never happened!" and adopting an extremist relativist position and saying "Male and female doesn't even exist as a biological reality, it's all a spectrum and a matter of personal preference!". This kind of nonsense is just different manifestations of the same kind of extremist relativism. If there is one group of people can waste a lot of your time trying to reason with, it's extremist relativists.
The fact is that the overwhelming majority of "transphobes" in Oliver's SJW universe are Christian conservatives and they are "transphobic" not for skeptical or philosophical reasons but for religious reasons, because they see being trans as something sinful that's against the teachings of the Bible. Oliver doesn't even mention them and thus bypasses what is probably the largest, most powerful group of "transphobes" in any society, and thus refuses to address a group of people who actually hold metaphysical views of sex and gender (in that men and women are created perfect in the image of the Lord and gender roles for men and women are ordained by God). How on earth can you purport to make a video about transphobia and not discuss transphobia as it is related to the Christian "family values" argument? Conservative publications go on and on about transpeople not being able to have children, how they are sterilized from their treatment, how it's wrong to raise your children agender, etc, their Christian opposition to transgenderism is always presented in a "family values" framework that has nothing to do with skepticism, transmedicalism or feminism. How the fuck can you make a video about transphobia and not know or bring up any this? It wasn't TERFs or Ray Blanchard who enacted the transban or who campaigned against bathroom laws, it was Christian conservatives, so why doesn't Oliver bring them up at all in his video about transphobia? This video is the perfect example of what happens when you live in an SJW bubble where you no longer interact with the real world and all that's left for you to do is to purity-police who gets to be within your bubble. Oliver the purity cop is saying that feminists and transmedicalists should be kicked out of his SJW bubble. He doesn't even see the overwhelming majority of transphobes outside his bubble who don't give a flying fuck about Ray Blanchard or feminism or the different kinds skepticism and just think being trans is immoral and against Christian family values. Why do you think is Oliver letting Christian conservatives off the hook here and falsely presenting feminism, skepticism and transmedicalism being the largest groups of transphobes? Is it because Oliver lives in a progressive enclave like London and thus underestimates how powerful and omnipresent Christian conservatives are? Why do Oliver and Nyk think it's OK for Christians to be transphobes and pretend like they don't know that's the biggest group, far bigger and more influential when it comes to spreading transphobic views than feminists, transmedicalists or skeptics ever could hope to be? Or is this a deliberate attempt to sic his audience onto feminists and skeptics to allow Christian conservatives to pop off the hook while everyone is looking the other way?
Furthermore, what does Oliver have to say to communists who insist that transgenderism is consumeristic anti-materialist idealism? (I know Youtube communist Jason Unruhe is in this camp). According to the communist materialist criticism of transgenderism it's actually the transgenderists themselves who are hold the metaphysical position. You can tell from this video that he has never read Ray Blanchard or Jeffreys and is only parrotting what others have told him to say about them to earn brownie points.
Then there is Oliver PhilosophyTube's leftwing authoritarianism: allowing people to do whatever they want with their bodies is "dangerously wrong". What other argument is there, really, for allowing transgenderism in this day and age with even the WHO saying that you don't need dysphoria to transition?
If Oliver doesn't want to keep the debate going (as he literally mocks the idea in this video), FFS what the fuck do you have a Youtube channel for? To listen to yourself talk by yourself?
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