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Miguelitro's avatar

My progressive friends often accuse me of "both-sides-ism" (is that a word?). It's true that I strain to understand all arguments and try to land at the right place.

But on the exhausting and absurd trans debates, allow me to stake out a position based on 5 years on Medium reading hundreds of articles on the debate by trans ideologues, trans people, feminists, liberals et al.

There are a fair number of really reasonable, decent, reality-based trans writers--Tara Ella, Lady K, and Ann Williams to name several. But as a group, there is a level of hostility, of ad hominem attacks, of disrespect, of complete delusion and of unreasonable entitlement among trans writers that really sets them apart.

If they want fairness, they have to be fair in return. If they want respect, they have to respect in return. If they want recognition, they have to recognize reality.

I've had it. The trans activists can grow up or go to hell. They are turning me into someone I don't want to be.

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J W's avatar

I'v been blown away by the trans discourse on disabled women like Henrietta. Disabled people have sat quietly by for a number of years now, as the trans community (wrongly) claim to be the most marginalised, most excluded, most powerless people on the planet. It's been galling, but whatever. Disabled people know who they are and aren't looking for public validation for their 'identities'., and have just shrugged along with the whole thing. I did think however that the trans community would have some general respect that other communities may, no matter how quietly they go about it, have some claims of their own to make. But no, TRAs are merciless. No one's needs come before theirs. Not even a women paralysed from the chest down, who requires care for the most basic and intimate of needs The violent misogynist attacks on Henrietta for standing up for her right to same sex care have left me dumbfounded. How did we get here?

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