text:  But it is that poignant, I think, important in this moment where particularly, you know, as you can guess, I have a vested interest in this, you know, as a transgender woman seeing headlines constantly and people who normally deny science starting to talk about the importance of science and sex and gender and all this stuff that's kind of bizarre. And Butler's book really puts it into perspective. Like, why now? Where is this manufactured controversy coming from? How it preys upon science?