I wrote about the results of a recent Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll which suggests that most Americans side with conservatives on the transgender debate.

I also argue that conservatives can’t afford to get complacent on the issue since most Americans’ objection to transgenderism concern harms, not truth. Thus, we could be headed for a contradictory compromise:

If sex is determined at birth — or, more accurately put, if sex is determined at conception and observed at birth — then “trans people” are men and women with false beliefs about their sex. While these individuals deserve all the same legal rights and protections as everyone else, they do not deserve special privileges based on their false beliefs (however sincerely held). For now, most people accept that sex is “assigned” at birth. But it’s not clear that they accept that this fact — and not individuals’ feelings — ought to be the basis of law.