And they get to live in that limbo calling themselves "allies" while working against trans women's existence because they ultimately think of that existence as tragic and pitiful I mean, gosh, you wouldn't want more people to have cancer You wouldn't want more people to be poor
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And there's just so much of this bullshit people wear as thick camouflage and throw up as a cloud of chaff in these debates I wish people would just force the issue, heighten the contradictions If you support trans women, you should want there to be more trans women
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cf. eve sedgwick's "how to bring your kids up gay," where she talks about how all this ~~scientific interest~~ in the causes of homosexuality always has this faint whiff of "yeah they want to eliminate us from existence, actually"
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and she says, we can't respond to that with "we're born this way" we need to say, "it is a positive good to be this way, actually"
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the issue here is that "I want to be more trans women" sounds weird and like An Agenda, even though it's the same statement as "I wish fewer men killed themselves." the TERFs deny this vociferously, but it's true.
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