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Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
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PhD, Texas A&M, 2015. Software worker. Data nerd. My views are my own and never represent any employer.

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    Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

    again, it's not accurate to say that Wizard Book Lady's views are stuck in the past or were typical for when she wrote the books. people have been prejudiced against trans people for ages, but frankly, almost no one was putting this much thought into it until quite recently

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      2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        Wizard Book Lady is, again, not like Catholic Oxford Linguist Fantasy Book Writer. She is not a bigot typical of her class and time. She is like Squid Monster That Will Awaken to Eat Us Horror Man. Her views are, while not atypical in her specific nation right now, unusual.

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      3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        This is not to paint a rosy picture of overall tolerance; it is to note that hatred of this level is a recent phenomenon on this particular issue and that even when she was writing the books it's likely her prejudice was no more than casual. This is a recent social phenomenon.

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      4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        Like, the bigotry she expresses isn't analogous to casual racism. It's not "haha trans people, what delusional idiots, lol". It's a set of memes and ideas and phrasings very similar to what neo-Nazi groups do with seven times two followed by eleven times eight, and the 6+8 words

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      5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        In "her time" (the mid-00s) the types of in-depth beliefs Wizard Book Lady now professes to hold about trans people were only really thought out to that extent by academics and members of certain r a d ical feminist organizations - quite obscure.

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      6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        Casually transphobic stuff like associating genitals with identity, or the scene in the books where the barrier magically throws people of the wrong gender out of the dorms, were common among ordinary people. These complex ideas about chromosomes and menstruation etc were not.

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      7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        Mostly these ideas stem from a freakout internal to feminism that occurred in the 1980s, which has continued to propagate itself online but largely lay dormant at the time Wizard Book Lady was actually writing her books.

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      8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        Which is to say, she was probably transphobic when she wrote those books, but she was probably not thinking about phrases like"p e o ple who men str uate"as some kind of existential threat, or at all.That was not in the public eye outside of like a couple of women's studies depts

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      9. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        I'm not saying this as any sort of defense, but just to counter the idea that this is about an old woman stuck in the past. She's not that old, and these ideas were only common in the part of the past where she was a young child, and even then were not as mainstream as now.

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      10. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        Until the past decade, if you hadn't heard of J a n i c e R a y m o n d you probably weren't going to say transphobia the way the Wizard Book Lady is saying it. This is a phenomenon which has been in large but not entire part driven by British tabloids.

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      11. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        (and for the record, if you haven't heard of J a n i c e R a y m o n d, she was an academic writer who published "The Transsexual Em pire" in the early 1980s [the title was probably an intentional Star Wars reference])

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      12. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        She is the source of the vast majority of the ideas that have been articulated by people like Wizard Book Lady, especially in the UK, recently, but also, even she didn't phrase them in precisely the same way. There is a precise linguistic trend that has emerged among these bigots

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      13. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 7 Jun 2020

        The UK-driven kind of transphobia that is at hand here did not exist in its present form a decade ago, which is not to say that transphobia didn't exist a decade ago, but it's very clear that people are being sucked into that mindset. It's NOT about being set in your ways.

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