Today:
Philosopher Kathleen Stock, linking to Philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith on Twitter

If you’re tempted by the currently fashionable philosophical idea that working descriptive categories are a bit like clubs, and should be “expanded” or “ameliorated” for humane reasons, to be more “inclusive” of people who want to be counted, then see if this tests your resolve.

Lawford-Smith

this is a real paper:

‘How dare you pretend to be disabled?’ The discounting of transabled people and their claims in disability movements and studies

Abstract

Although the contours of the ‘disabled person’ category are questioned by anti-ableist activists, they remain rigid regarding transabled people (who want to become disabled). For anti-ableist activists, transabled people do not count as disabled. They are perceived to: be falsely disabled; steal resources from disabled people; and be disrespectful by denying, fetishizing, or appropriating marginalized realities. By combining critical discourse analysis, genealogy, and deconstruction, I examine these negative discourses to encourage alliances between anti-ableist activists and transabled people. Ideas developed in disability and trans studies reveal the limits of these discourses anchored in ableist and cisnormative* assumptions.

Yesterday:
Leiter

Blast from the past: when the Associate Editors of Hypatia defamed Rebecca Tuvel
Back in 2017

Tuvel's paper: In Defense of Transracialism

Stock supports Tuvel

If you accept that Tuvel's paper is reasonable then you have to accept that "transablism" is reasonable.

That's a problem for professional rationalists. When the rubber meets the road, Stock and Lawford-Smith, as women and feminists, go against their training. They won't admit it but they do. Leiter is so caught up in defending the profession, and so removed from the issues themselves, that he ties himself in knots.

repeat:

Rachel Dolezal saw Get Out and was like "oh hell fucking yes"

— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) March 27, 2017

Feminist philosophers do that as well, when they can twist their rationalizations towards what they want. Empiricism for philosophers is always the last option, only in a crisis, even if only a crisis of confidence 
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New tag for experimental philosophy (aka, border-hopping by specialists in dying fields)