It is also very obvious that Jesse sees himself as a white knight (in his usual creepy way) for these poor broken detransitioned women And that he's strongly biased toward seeing them as victims first and political agents second, while his bias is reversed for trans people
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If you bring up to Jesse that these poor broken damaged women are also violent committed TERFs, he'd call you monstrously callous and cold These people have been *harmed*, first and foremost, and the way in which they deal with that harm should be set aside when judging them
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When talking about actual trans people it's the opposite Stop "weaponizing" suicide statistics, stop "weaponizing" personal anecdotes of transphobic abuse, stop "weaponizing" the specter of dysphoria All the pain is reduced to "weapons" in service to ideology
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Both of these are a form of flattening and dehumanization - no moral agency for the detrans, no empathy or pity for the trans But it's obviously not just a political bias but gendered - he very obviously thinks of "detrans" as an inherently female category and "trans" as male
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(Because he is in fact a TERF and immersed in TERF ideology even as he tries to hold himself apart) It's really really fucking obvious in whom he seeks out to highlight and make into anecdotal evidence
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There was one really obnoxious mask off moment where he characterized Julia Serano's skepticism of the "detrans narrative" as her going "Pipe down, ladies!" (Fucking transmisogynist shithead)
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