Meet Rebecca Tuvel. She’s an assistant professor at Rhodes College, and she had the temerity to publish an essay in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, asking a simple question about Rachel Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner: what’s the difference? More specifically, Tuvel asked why society would accept the concept of transgenderism but not transracialism – the notion that a biological man could rightly and justifiably identify a woman but not that a white woman could identify as a black woman. Tuvel observed mildly, “Considerations that support transgenderism seem to apply equally to transracialism.”
All hell broke loose: Tuvel had spoken the truth no one may speak and remain in favor on the left. And so she was destroyed. Essay after essay emerged condemning her for her failure to ignore such an obvious question. Some 500 professors signed an open letter to Hypatia protesting the essay, and enumerating the problems with the essay:
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