...When one says I am not my birth gender and the response is wrongly toned, there is equivalent harm in all directions. I have no doubt there people who desist from identifying as transgender, I know some. There is no doubt some do so on a whim...
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Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
...but the question that mattes is (1) how many and (2) how do we enable without encouraging, yet without oppressing someone's identity. I have seen people deeply regret transition, even surgical intervention. Those I know had deep underlying mental health issues...
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Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
...I believe strongly that the way to manage this is a conversation the transgender community needs to have that we have not had effectivelty for a numer of reasons. Sadly, the oppression by overzealous anti-trans viewpoint has contributed to our hyper vigilance for oppression..
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Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
...Trans people are a community still fighting against deeply-held discrimination and systemmic oppression. As this thread shows, it is STILL percieved my many that discriminating against trans folks (women especially) is perfectly allowable...
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Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
...In such an environment, all push back against trans self-identity and trans rights are met with exactly the same response from the "trans warriors" that we see from "feminist warriors" about patriarchy. What's been missed in
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Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
...When people answer our valid complaint about how we are treated in society with ridicule and transphobia (this thread a case in point), then like all other oppressed people resisting their oppressors, we seek wins where we can: in politics and in the courts...
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Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
...The nuanced discussions are taking place and because of the intensity of the tranphobia from die-hard
#TERF activists and because of the unyielding wall it creates, TERFy criticism has been taken out of the dialogue.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and
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It's a simple question. Can you answer it?https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/956299782745657345 …
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4thWaveNow @4th_WaveNowReplying to @MorganeOgerBC @radicalhag and 4 othersIn clear, concise language describe how anyone in this thread is advocating "discrimination" against trans folks--apart from some people being unwilling to agree that a trans person is literally and exactly equivalent to the sex opposite to the one they were born as.1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes -
Replying to @4th_WaveNow @radicalhag and
"Trans women are men" is an act of discrimination.
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But should it be illegal to tell a lie? Would that be "discrimination"? All of this is a slippery slope. People tell lies all the time.
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