Alternate title: Ross Douthat "both sides" the trans/gay panic bullshit to make his liberal readers feel better about being bigoted.
Alternate title: Ross Douthat "both sides" the trans/gay panic bullshit to make his liberal readers feel better about being bigoted.
To be way, way overly fair to the author of this shitty, shitty article, that quote is the last little bit of the "third position" in his stupid Rorschach test. He doesn't necessarily believe what he's saying there, he's explaining what the TERF/conservative camp thinks. (I bet you anything he does actually agree with the TERFs/conservatives, but he's pretending to be more objective for the purpose of writing this piece.)