The papers of record in Pennsylvania’s biggest cities, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Pittsburg Post-Gazette have over and over again shown their bias in favor of gender ideology and their dismissiveness toward those who object. However, we think it is worth trying various approaches to try and get through to them.
Following is the text of a letter that argues that gender ideology is a matter of faith and not science and that newspapers should not advance one set of unprovable beliefs over other unprovable beliefs. Feel free to adapt it any way you like.
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Dear Editor,
I’m writing to ask you to reconsider your paper’s commitment to the unscientific notion of gendered souls rather than the scientific notion of biological sex. I recognize that a well-funded and aggressive lobby has been evangelizing the idea of gendered souls for decades and framed it as a civil rights movement.
However, I am asking you to recognize that gender ideology is far more faith than science and should be treated as such.
With the recent revelations in The WPATH Files and The Cass Review, your publication should reject the notion of gendered souls and return to the material reality of sex. Many European countries, including Finland, The Netherlands, and the UK are moving away from the affirmation gender model because the data indicates it fails.
I realize that this is a heretical notion in many circles. However, it is time for your paper to recognize that many people, including those on the political left, do not accept the notion of the wrong souls in the wrong body. Some object because biological sex is immutable. Some object because their religious beliefs do not include the wrong soul in the wrong body. Some object because the idea that gender nonconformity needs correction is homophobic. Some object because it’s simply nonsense to suggest anyone is born in the wrong body. Whatever someone’s reasons, it’s time your publication stopped treating the relatively new and unscientific belief of gendered souls as orthodoxy.
Sincerely,
Did it! You inspired me to go ahead and write a letter tonight. I ended up writing to the Tribune because they had a more recent article I could use as a jumping-off point.