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Another letter.
The letter contains no surprises.
As leaders of trans and LGBTQ+ organisations we are writing to express our frustration and disappointment at the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) recent record on LGBTQ+ people’s rights and trans people’s rights specifically.
The emphasis is always on trans people. Why?
Probably because people are so easily bored. Lesbian, gay, that’s so last week – let’s have something fresher!
We are disappointed that, despite the realms of possibility to improve LGBTQ+ people’s lives and our access to our human rights, the EHRC has driven forward very little for our communities in recent years. Against that backdrop of a lack of support for LGBTQ+ people, we are frustrated that you then chose to intervene in a case to say that so-called ‘gender critical’ beliefs should be a protected philosophical belief.
In other words they’re frustrated that the Equality and Human Rights Commission says that women have a right to say that men are not women. If women don’t have a right to say that men are not women then we don’t have any rights at all, because a man can always bounce up and take them away from us while claiming to be a woman.
It was a kick in the teeth to trans people to see the EHRC appear to put their organisational weight behind a movement that has only contributed to rising hate for trans people in communities, creating a policy environment where it is harder for trans people to access their rights.
What about women and their ability to access their rights?
The people responsible for rising hate (whatever that means) against trans people is the trans people and their advocates. In my case, the “rising hate” is an emotional antipathy against people who lie and try to take things away from others that are not theirs to take. I think the T advocates are using “rising hate” to insinuate more numerous instances of violent acts aga!inst T people, when actual violent incidents against T people are not numerous, nor rising. Of course, the insinuation that incidents of violence against T people are rising includes the T dogma that “saying things” or “using words” is “literal violence.” And they are still flying false colors with the LGBTQ, when they are not talking about rising hate against LGB, but only TQ+. Incidents of hate against LGB are not rising, except for (1) T advocates poisoning the well by association with T, and (2) T themselves are responsible for horrific hate against LGB people.
LGB really should divorce TQ, along with whatever + is.
So TOTALLY last week. This is Andrea Long Chu in an interview talking about how queerness is just the latest thing:
I’m unsatisfied. Sure, I think heterosexuals (like myself) are despicable. But her application of it seems contradictory, especially when she assumes “heterosexuality” is bad, and, earlier in our conversation, Chu observed, “Queerness is used in certain academic circles as a master term for subversion or resistance”—pretty much a leftist moral currency. Which is it? “I’m generally ready to endorse the thesis that any given X is bad. The analytic work is to figure out how the thing is bad,” Andrea shrugs, “I think straightness and queerness are bad in different ways.” Like a pack of Newports and a Juul, fully loaded with a crème brûlée pod. Both promise a head rush and potential dependency, but the Juul, like queerness, is just cooler, or at least feels more modern.
What’s the source? The punctuation seems chaotic.
Ophelia, seems to be from this Vice article:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ev74m7/andrea-long-chu-interview-avital-ronell-gender
Ophelia, I am terribly sorry I did not give you the reference, and I thank latsot for the link.
The writer of the article, Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, is trans, and is quite the hack. I think he has moved on from Vice, but please peruse this collection of dreck:
https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/sessi-kuwabara-blanchard
My personal favorite: I Asked My Crushes Why They Won’t Sleep with Me. It is a puzzlement.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kgvab/transgender-sex-chasers-cisgender-men
As for Andrea Long Chu, he is trans, wrote a book called Females: A Concern, and is one of those thinkers thinking all the thoughts.
This is a quote from Chu captured by Helen Joyce:
Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation… I’ll define as female any psychic operation in which the self is sacrificed to make room for the desires of another…[The] barest essentials [of femaleness are] an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes.
https://thehelenjoyce.com/what-is-a-woman/
(I do not have time right now, but I will brush up on my HTML so I can start embedding links. My apologies for the mess.)