Kinda both, saying someone needs experience to play a lead role is not a circular argument because there are plenty of non-lead roles in which to gain the experience.
I’m sure they do, but I regularly see people reflecting back distorted versions of my points which makes me thing they’re having trouble understanding the position. I think there’s a big tendency to filter the argument through an anti-trans lens and that’s what’s leading people astray, that’s why I went on that tangent with the affirmative action study.
I respect that you want to end the discussion but I feel the need to respond. I didn’t saying I had a contrarian instinct because I thought I was losing and trying to back out. I said it because it seemed like people kept making bad assumptions around my arguments so I was trying to give them some insight about what drove my points, so they wouldn’t jump to flawed conclusions.
