The claim was not that anthropology/Sinister Cathedral Orthodoxy endorses inborn gender identity, despite its being wrong, for its political utility to trans rights. Such Orthodoxy is precisely the basis on which he thinks it is wrong. The claim was that activists endorse this false belief for its political utility, and that he and other Sinister Cathedral Agents don’t feel particularly obliged to go out of their way to correct it (although doing so was precisely what he did in that post.)
My point is that one way or another the claim obtains the official stamp of approval as being the “scientific” and that this is an argument to be highly skeptical of anthropological claims with this approval.
My point is that one way or another the claim obtains the official stamp of approval as being the “scientific” and that this is an argument to be highly skeptical of anthropological claims with this approval.
Which claim? The one that anthropologists are endorsing is not the one that’s politically convenient to them.