The case focuses on the constitutionality of a recent Tennessee law banning the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones with minors seeking to change sex.
Gessen is certainly smart, and a good writer. But I thought this column was histrionic and poorly reasoned, and the fact that Gessen thought it reasonable to recount the interchange with the staffer -- as if the staffer was somehow ignorant or negligent -- reflects the kind of elitist attitude that I think drives a lot of people to dislike the democrats.
Masha Gessen wrote a good book about genetic diseases—she carries the BRCA1 mutation and discusses it in the book. She seemed an intelligent person.
Sad to see she’s gone off the rails so badly. Including calling herself M. Gessen and wanting to be called “they.”
Gessen is certainly smart, and a good writer. But I thought this column was histrionic and poorly reasoned, and the fact that Gessen thought it reasonable to recount the interchange with the staffer -- as if the staffer was somehow ignorant or negligent -- reflects the kind of elitist attitude that I think drives a lot of people to dislike the democrats.
I agree that it was a bad column, definitely not up the previous work I read.