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In order to be fair to my critics and perhaps partially unmilkshake duck myself, I think I have to address the specific complaints about my allowing @jessesingal to profile me. Thread:
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I'm trying to listen to your criticisms and give them fair consideration. And I agree that Jesse has signal-boosted some problematic stuff, and that he has defensively lashed out at many of those who've pointed this out.
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But the common sentiment that Jesse is a raging TERF who hates trans people is strongly discordant with my own take on his past articles and my personal interaction with him.
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This is someone who never once questioned my gender identity, who immediately switched to the right name and pronouns when I came out, who's written one of the only articles about a trans person I've ever seen in a mainstream outlet that doesn't deadname the subject.
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I deal with TERF harassment every day. I think I have a feel for what TERFs are like. And this is not it.
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So even if you disagree with me on this, I hope you can at least understand why, from my perspective, Jesse does not seem like a transphobe or a TERF.
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A lot of people have said that I'm naïvely allowing myself to be manipulated by an insidious TERF who's using me to make it look like he's not transphobic. But he first interviewed me before I was even out, so I find that implausible.
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Everyone makes mistakes, it's possible I'm missing something and fucked up. I want to take your criticisms seriously but I also want to talk to
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He's only friends with TERFs and signal boosts them and defends them...
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...and has repeatedly stood up for conversion therapy
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but does it *matter* whether he Really Truly Believes that Trans People Suck?
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i mean, most discrimination is not perpetuated out of a Deep Hatred of the subjects, but out of shitty ideas. and he boosts those ideas.
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He certainly *likes* TERFs though, and is quite happy to give them authoritative-sounding, sciency backup for their beliefs.
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