Support

Vagueness instead of argument example #eleventy billion.

“support trans people”?

What’s that supposed to mean?

Gender skeptics don’t drop trans people or push them over or throw them off cliffs. We don’t not support trans people. What we do is decline to pretend to believe they are the sex they are not. That’s not some kind of opposite of “support.” It’s a refusal to buy into fantasy, a refusal to lie, a refusal to pretend not to know what we know.

None of this is about “support.” Trans people aren’t babies, nor are they floppy people with no bones who need to be propped up by benevolent bystanders. They’re just people who have bought into a delusion, and we’re just people who say the delusion is a delusion.

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