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... no, this isn't an argument on his part. I agree that Walsh opposes transgender stuff in general. I disagree that he attempts to articulate any basis for doing so. He's just saying ... "you are wrong. you cant make me agree with you. you are clearly a man and not a woman". Nothing more is happening there! If you tell a trans person that, or someone who is trans-accepting that ... that won't convince anyone! And he makes the conservative/libertarian argument of "you are trying to make me agree with you which isn't ok i have rights", - again, not articulating any actual objections to the specific things trans people are doing or asking. Which isn't useful!
The skeleton thing is really dumb! Aside from i'm sure there are a few outlier women with weird skeletons, it still isn't a reason to oppose people who are bio-men acting like women if they want to, or opposing letting them do that. It's just referencing some 'common sense' things you can't articulate, and don't understand well, and this means they lose! Even though in direction, they're right, trans bad, not woman, etc - they have no idea what that means, so they can't do anything with it.
... why? Plenty of ancient cultures would consider a baby in some far off land to not have the same 'right to life' (not that they even thought of a right to life!) as a fellow tribesperson. Seriously, how is that 'obvious'? It might be true, but that truth was understood after thousands of years of western philosophy. ("right" to life? what is a "right"?) That isn't obvious. Analogously with the trans stuff - this is all quite complicated, and just saying 'it's obvious i dont have to discuss it' means you ... lose to people who do try to discuss it!
right, because I am opposed to trans in general. Criticizing bad allies is as valuable, if not more, than criticizing enemies!
... what does this mean? What does 'gender ideology' mean that 'trans acceptance' doesn't? They're actually pretty different, tbh. "Trans acceptance" - "this person was a man but really wants to dress as a girl and it will make him feel really bad if he doesn't he's just being his authentic happy self :((". Gender ideology is the "there is no difference between the sexes it is all socialized social constructs patriarchy oppression". They really are not the same! Obviously they are related many different large-scale senses but there are very important local differences.
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