It is only untrue if you are being obtusely over-literal well beyond what every other person in the conversation has clearly understood him to have meant.
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Trans people make cis people anxious, even cis people who refuse to admit they have any transphobic animus That is in fact, the definition of the constructed state of *cisness*, the felt need to protect one's gender identity as obvious, unquestionable "biological reality"
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In much the same way men are always discomfited by women in a role of authority or power and white people are always discomfited by Blackness Ironically, old school psychoanalysis was based on trying to trace these connections, "You say it doesn't bother you but it clearly does"
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Something I realized recently about Jesse is that he's practicing adversarial journalism, which is good when it's pointed at the powers that be, but doesn't really make sense pointed at trans people. But other adversarial journalists (Glenn) phalanx around him nevertheless.
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And he never, ever points that adversarial lens at TERFs, even as he claims to be some kind of neutral party opposed to the extremes of both sides
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