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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. ACAB Whisperer‏ @Luarien Apr 14
      Replying to @alexrubner @arthur_affect @JesseThorn

      you do know about the law of large numbers, right

      1 reply 0 retweets 43 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @Luarien @alexrubner @JesseThorn

      Moreover, this kind of argument presupposes that if transness is to be tolerated at all we have to imagine it descending upon people's heads like a bolt of lightning by chance And if it seems to occur by anything other than a perfectly random lottery then it's sinister and fake

      1 reply 9 retweets 100 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Luarien and

      Which is nonsense -- being trans, like literally every other thing a human being can be, has to be the result of some combination of genes and environment Siblings raised in the same household share both The odds of clusters of trans siblings should be pretty good

      4 replies 10 retweets 120 likes
    4. Ryan Munroe‏ @NoTheOtherGuy Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Luarien and

      Also, I feel the role of acceptance is massively undervalued. Someone who is in a bigoted environment is less likely to even think about being trans. If parents had regular conversations about gender; the number of people who would be able to identify as GNC would increase

      1 reply 2 retweets 49 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @NoTheOtherGuy @Luarien and

      See yeah I'm actually perfectly fine with saying trans-accepting parents are more likely to have trans kids, and that there is a "social contagion" of trans acceptance within communities making it more likely for kids to come out

      1 reply 5 retweets 77 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

      Why on Earth shouldn't that be true? It'd be absurd to argue that there don't seem to be more gay people around now than in the 1950s It's only when you put a sinister black-and-white gloss on things like this that it becomes a battleground

      1 reply 6 retweets 75 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

      This idea of black-and-white definitions -- "You're EITHER trans or cis, you're EITHER gay or straight, you're EITHER male or female" -- that is the essence of homophobic bigotry that LGB Alliance types have tried to retcon into being a big gay tradition

      2 replies 11 retweets 75 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

      And I think people fall into the trap of trying to defend ideas like this because they don't want to give oxygen to the idea "conversion therapy works" etc. Which, again, I see as a mistake -- it's not about whether conversion therapy "works", it's a moral atrocity either way

      1 reply 8 retweets 66 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

      *Of course* some people who live in a homophobic society who are subjected to conversion therapy will, as a result of this, avoid gay sex and stay in het marriages who otherwise would've Of course that's why they do it

      2 replies 6 retweets 54 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

      I disagree with conversion therapists about what's going on under the hood in such a scenario -- I think the societal benefit of doing this isn't worth the suffering and trauma it causes But from a black-box perspective of securing compliance, sure, it works just fine

      2 replies 5 retweets 45 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

      Plenty of trans kids with affirming parents and communities are coming out early in life who, if they'd been born in 1970, likely would've never come out in their entire lives, and just suffered silently with feelings and impulses they didn't know what do with That's good!

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        2. Zendervai‏ @Zendervai Apr 14
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

          The terfs are reminding me of the toxic side of the Behaviorist movement in psychology. The idea was that all behaviour and actions are the result of external stimuli, there's no underlying thought or reasoning behind anything. If someone does something weird, their (con't)

          2 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
        3. Zendervai‏ @Zendervai Apr 14
          Replying to @Zendervai @arthur_affect and

          perception is off, it's not that they have a thought process that's not what the psychologist thinks is "normal". A lot of terfs refuse to believe that people have their own internal lives and that all that exists is what you can see from outside. Which is obviously wrong.

          1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
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        1. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 14
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

          turns out that when you adjust the difficulty sliders up on your game fewer people beat it, weird

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        2. flora + fauna‏ @Stanford_lands Apr 14
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

          The undertone I hear to people spending a lot of time going on and on about there being more or less trans people alive is they don't truly believe that trans people are awesome and a world with trans people in it is beautiful. Which is gross!

          1 reply 1 retweet 30 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14
          Replying to @Stanford_lands @NoTheOtherGuy and

          Right, the idea is that being trans is a disease and that increasing numbers of trans people means the disease is spreading ("social contagion"), that we grudgingly allowed transition to try to *cure* the disease but it's making it worse

          1 reply 5 retweets 25 likes
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        1. Andrew McGrae‏ @TGNProfessor Apr 14
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

          You can look at another trait that was "educated" out of children. It's not that something has happened to make people turn left-handed, but once everyone stopped trying to force kids to write with their right hand anyway those who were left-handed did what felt comfortable.pic.twitter.com/wBPdNP334b

          Graph showing the rate of left-handedness among Americans by year of birth. In the 1900's it dips to about 3%, but by 1960 it has plataued at 12%.
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        1. Piglet‏ @porcinea Apr 16
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NoTheOtherGuy and

          And many of those older trans folk are coming out now, which is awesome.

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