1/ There's going to be a 60 Minutes on detransitioners. They asked me to be a talking head, and I said I'd prefer not to be part of this story. They said, Please? I said, you ought to talk to Torrey Peters, or at the least someone AFAB (since that's the focus). They said...
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@transequality whose speciality is public policy? I'm a novelist and an English teacher and I'm not all that great with stories that belong to other people? They said, okay we'll try, but we'd be grateful if you'd consider. I got my hair done: first time in a salon in...Show this thread -
5/ ...a year, read up on the issue, talked to some people, read Torrey's book. Finally they called back and said, OK, we got someone else to talk on camera. I felt such a huge sense of relief. Also, a little glum, because I felt like I'd "let down the side." But...
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6/ ... I'm aware that time is passing and that there is a new generation of trans spokespeople who can and ought to be doing this work. And I'm also kind of done explaining myself, or begging for my dignity. I'm hoping the show is good. We will see....
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7/ ...Later, I thought: Jenny Boylan, you might be the first trans woman in history who begged, please please please, don't put me on your TV show. As the old saying does not go, Be careful what you don't ask for. You might not get it.
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Exactly!
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Thank you JFB and
@chasestrangio for shining a light on this horrible choice by@60Minutes. "Why focus on this small group of outliers, when you could focus on the struggles, and triumphs, of so many other trans folks?" 1/ - Show replies
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If “Why focus on this small group of outliers” is a good argument against a story on detransitioners, it is also a good argument against a story on transgender people themselves, who are also outliers. But actually, it is not a good argument.https://twitter.com/JennyBoylan/status/1373307929256939528 …
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This is a bit like arguing that we shouldn’t report on bad cops because they’re outliers and that we should focus on the struggles and triumphs of all those good cops
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