As a contrast to the odious Jordan Peterson, the brilliant philosopher Slavoj Zizek makes a compassionate argument for the "essentialist" needs of transgender people in doing something about their suffering. In other words he buys into the argument of essentialist identity.
Interestingly he also makes a comment about the idea of choosing one's gender as if it were a mood as being steeped in ideology.Note that with Zizek you need to get past his facial ticks and not let them distract you :)
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