Spreading gasoline on the fire

There’s no such thing as “trans misogyny” any more than there’s such a thing as “trans racism.”

https://twitter.com/jvn/status/1417536266950881292

It’s not “the truth” that “trans and non-binary people have been here forever.” It may be, and probably is, the truth that people who have felt discomfort with their own sex and/or curiosity about being the other sex have been here forever, but “trans” has been expanded and expanded and expanded to mean far more than that, and the far more is mostly batshit crazy. There’s no reason to assume that that particular brand of crazy – so shaped by Twitter and other modern forms of media – has always existed.

It’s not “the fact” that JK Rowling is using her platform to spread violence against trans people all the time. It’s not even close to a fact, aka true, in fact it looks kind of libelous to me. Saying that men are not women is not “spreading violence” against those men. It’s not true that JKR is transphobic or that she “continues to create hate” or has created hate in the first place. (Meanwhile Mr Van Ness should take a harder look to the way some trans activists talk about and to women.)

It’s not true that trans women are women.

Truth matters. It matters what’s true and what isn’t.

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