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Steve QJ's avatar

"They are turning me into someone I don't want to be."

God, I feel this so much. It's a battle, every type I put fingers to keyboard on this issue, to temper my frustration into something compassionate and hopefully useful. I've seen so many people who are paying attention to this issue turn into angry, unreasonable versions of themselves. And it's really hard not to when you see the depths of the misogyny, bullying and reality denial that are endemic to the activism.

What (mostly) keeps me sane is remembering how utterly many prominent "anti-racists" fails to speak for me or anything I believe. I was lucky enough to have a platform to push back against it. But many trans people don't. And frankly, the viscousness that trans people face if they challenge the orthodoxy is brutal.

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https://medium.com/prismnpen/i-support-queer-rights-but-7eda17fae1e0

This article on Medium criticizes a straw man position attributed to you. Trans woman activists just can’t seem to understand that when .06% of the population demands that the other 99.4% completely change how humanity is organized for delusional reasons and without any sense of reciprocity or fairness that resistance might be based on something other than hate. That no discrimination does not require that humanity surrender its grip on objective reality.

Wondering whether responding is a total waste of time

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