Suddenly, simple truths, supported by both science and common sense-such as “male and female are real biological categories defined by reproductive anatomy”-became taboo. But while working as a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State in 2018, I found myself ostracized by scientific colleagues and people I thought were my close friends because I was unwilling to promote scientifically inaccurate claims about biology to avoid offending those who identify as transgender. I am an evolutionary biologist, and from 2008 to 2020 I worked to become a university professor. But with respect to the important cultural values I have in mind-free speech, individual rights and women’s rights-my cartoon is consistent with the lived experience of many liberals and centrists. A similar drawing depicting specific issues such as abortion, climate change or immigration might tell a different story. It is important to keep these shifts in mind when evaluating the “accuracy” of my cartoon, because the most common criticism is that it portrays the right as remaining stationary since 2008.
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The right may be inconsistent in its support of free speech, individual rights and women’s rights, but the left is consistent in its opposition to all three. Today’s progressive can’t even tell you what a woman is. Women’s rights, previously understood as relating to their oppression on the basis of sex, is now viewed by the left through the lens of gender identity, which gives priority to men who declare themselves to be women.
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The aspiration of judging individuals by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin has given way to identity politics and “equity” initiatives that prioritize group interests over individual rights. Now they disparage open expression as a danger to democracy and minorities. People on the left once viewed free speech as sacrosanct and championed speaking truth to power. But over the past decade, and especially the past five years, I’ve watched my party distance itself from the values and principles I hold dear.
I turned 18 in 2003 and have never voted for a Republican. I created the cartoon to help sort out my feelings of increasing political alienation from the left.