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What would you do to gain custody of your kids? Probably not this.

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This newsletter would be exceptionally boring (even more so, I mean) if I shied away from hot-button issues, but I try to avoid writing about the great transgender debate that’s consumed social media these past few years.

It’s not that I don’t know much about the issue - when has that stopped me before? - but that the argument has been completely dominated by extremes who will try to get you cancelled if you step out of line.

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On one side are right-wing social conservatives and provocateurs who refuse to acknowledge that anyone, especially a minor, can be transgender, or at least have hit on a red-meat issue that lets them rile up the base without talking about anything actually important. And in the other corner, we have extreme-left wokelings who interpret any criticism or questioning, no matter the intention - say, “are we sure giving hormone block…

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