you know how there's tech debt. we need a concept of rhetorical debt. rhetorical debt is when activists use a rhetorical strategy ("born this way" rhetoric re: queerness, for example) to achieve a short-term goal (gay marriage and its associated legal benefits) which ultimately causes unforeseen long-term problems (queer people get really into categorization and also astrology)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children)
which has led to many grown adults shouting about things they think are "basic biology" (read: "i stopped learning about the world i live in after grade school")
when really trans rights have almost nothing at all to do with biology, basic or advanced; the public debate going on is entirely a matter of sociology, and even when you know a little bit more about homologous structures and hormone receptors, that knowledge is no help in a line of argument that quickly devolves into biological names and biological clothing
the issue with transphobes' knowledge of science is not that it's incomplete in any technical regard, but that they use "science teaches us" in the part of the sentence where "God commands us" normally goes
