ABSTRACT This article examines what it means to respond, or fail to respond, to the individual realities of others in cases of deep moral disagreement concerning trans‐exclusionary sentiments. Building on a limitation we identify in Daniele Moyal‐Sharrock and Constantine Sandis' account of ‘bedrock gender’, we consider two readings of Kendrick Lamar's song ‘Auntie Diaries’ as an artistic intervention in contemporary debates on language, race, and trans politics: a rule‐based self‐censorship reading and a moral‐understanding reading. We argue that while a rule‐based self‐censorship approach may preserve trans‐exclusionary sentiments, a shift in moral understanding reflects a change in one's relation to others in which such sentiments lose their hold. Connecting Lamar's rhetorical question, ‘Mr. Preacherman, should we love thy neighbour?’, to Wittgenstein‐inspired discussions of the parable of the Good Samaritan, we also emphasise the role of unmediated responses to injustice in moral understanding, in contrast to the limits of logic‐driven moral imperatives.
Manhire et al. (Mon,) studied this question.