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"Believing that adults, or even children, who show no other signs of such purported delusion, are capable of defining the nature of their own gender doesn't actually require any 'magical thinking,' as Williamson argues. Medical science, biology, psychology, and hundreds of thousands of human experiences over centuries, have already thoroughly confirmed the reality of transgender people.

"By substituting his own wisdom, Williamson places himself in the grand tradition of those who opposed heliocentrism -- or worse, those who failed to see anyone other than white men as fully human.

"As with the former, disagreement doesn't change reality. Williamson's grasp of 'the biological facts of life' is no different than pointing to the rising and setting of the sun as as clear evidence that the earth is the center of the universe. Transgender people aren't lies in the face of facts; we're facts that widen the truth."

  -- Jen Richards, "Laverne Cox is a woman -- and publishing transphobia is a disgrace to us all", 2014-06-03, in The Daily Dot