If you're a cis journalist who writes about trans people, you have effectively appointed yourself our representative to the public, at a time when we are fighting for the most basic form of societal recognition. We didn't vote for you, but here you are.
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To instead reflexively insist, "No, it's the transgenders who are wrong," to block your critics, to go about publicly discrediting them—it's such an abuse of the position you've appropriated for yourself.
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But of course, the cis representatives get to throw their tantrum. Their basic capability as rational agents is never questioned.
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Whereas if you're trans & you want your own voice in the conversation about you, you're always ten decibels or one heated tweet away from being cast as a triggered tr*nny. You have to have the emotional dynamism of a black stone effigy of Ramses II.
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Is it just arrogance or is triggering a backlash that allows you to portray yourself as the victim of a PC horde the entire point? It’s the same playbook as Charles Murray.
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