I have drafted this essay literally dozens of times. As long drafts in my head, as an op-ed that got a very polite rejection letter, as various stale drafts on this blog, as a Mastodon thread I never posted, as an audio essay I never posted, as a video essay I never made. It started … Continue reading ‘Is’ and ‘ought’: How the American trans rights movement failed, and the tenuous path back to a limited success