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Father, Husband, Senior Fellow, @FutureEdGU, and Editor of Dropout Nation. Chronicling education reform and America's dropout crisis. http://dropoutnation.net 

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    1. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      So much of parenting in this country involves moms and dads forcing their kids and teens to achieve their stunted and thwarted ambitions. The Lori Loughlins pushing their daughters into higher ed, even when those kids are doing just fine making money off YouTube videos...

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    2. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      The White Evangelical men demanding their daughters to wear 'purity' jewelry to show that they'll never be those 'loose' women those very same men chased when they were their daughter's age (and often, while still married to their children's moms).

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    3. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      The Black dudes making their sons play travel basketball when those boys would rather pursue science or engineering or even the dramatic arts. This forcing of parents' will on children's lives, necessary in many ways when they are seven, becomes abusive when they're 16.

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    4. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted observing this filth unsettles me

      When a few folks - who are parents themselves and will admit to the struggle of balance between what they must do to safeguard their kids and what they must do to let them become their own people, point out the abuse that can happen, folks get mad.https://twitter.com/matryoshka_core/status/1374026998243336198 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      observing this filth unsettles me @matryoshka_core
      Replying to @theRealWedgeA @ebruenig @jessesingal
      The magnitude of mistake a parent will let a child make in order for the child to learn a lesson can vary, and Noah's bar is higher than most. Fine. Point is: people react to an attempt to discuss the amount of power parents hold over kids with kneejerk aggression and mockery.
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    5. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      Which is to be expected. Parenting is a very personal thing, often a reflection of what our own parents did (or didn't do), often imperfect (kids don't come with manuals), and involves done trial and error. Nobody likes being questioned about what they do with their kids.

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    6. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      Yet as demonstrated by Jesse Singal, the Atlantic and others, folks think that the move by families to be compassionate to Trans-youth by letting them be who they want to be is somehow 'abuse'. Because these parents decided to not embrace the cruelty meted out by other parents.

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    7. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      For Captain TERF (and quite likely, based on her record, for Bruenig), the issue is ultimately that he is a transphobe. He has a long record of getting reporters who are Transpeople fired for daring to challenge his arguments with data and evidence.pic.twitter.com/Fll5UqSpxB

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    8. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      As for everyone else: The reality is that so much of parenting is also wrapped up in each person's bigotries, anxieties and implicit biases that when your children force folks to confront them, the children can also become the 'other'.

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    9. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted James Palmer

      By the way: Berlatsky knows about which he speaks.https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1374011906567065601 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      James Palmer @BeijingPalmer
      also worth noting that Berlatsky has a trans daughter who he has been a highly supportive dad to.
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    10. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      Bruenig, per usual, deleted her tweet. Unusually, she deleted it a little early. Likely because it got the attention of her bosses at the New York Times, who aren't likely interested in more negative attention for one of their columnists.pic.twitter.com/2GFTwZvMH3

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      RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

      RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

      More-likely, Bruenig will go the Dreher route.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1374031691417796611 …

      RiShawn Biddle added,

      Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
      I hope if Bruenig's children are queer or trans that she will be willing to tell them that queer sex is not sinful, rather than blocking them, the way she blocks people on twitter who ask that question.
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      • Inner Ring Suburban Blues Celine Deontology Vardex23 Dliz elise. Chrissy Stroop IT’S ALWAYS PSL SEASON 💐🌳🍄 AlbyZee 🌋🕺🏻💛🦞🦭
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        2. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted C.T. May

          This reply from C.T. May is spot-on.https://twitter.com/CTMay3/status/1374041786843283465 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          C.T. May @CTMay3
          Replying to @jessesingal
          I don't think Noah's position in that tweet is really so crazy. But if you want to see somebody get nuts, there's always Ms Bruenig's reply.
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        3. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

          As are the replies to her tweet to direct folks away from her previous remarks.pic.twitter.com/GjLgJhZ7nc

          1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
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        4. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted

          True... https://twitter.com/HangoverAnxiety/status/1374046348039892995 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          This Tweet is unavailable.
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        5. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

          Bruenig now offers a non-apology...pic.twitter.com/5N0XAxYMtz

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        6. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 22

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

          While Berlatsky points out her slander.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1374187821490176003?s=19 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
          again, I appreciate her deleting the tweet, admitting it was bad, and also appreciate the clarification that she was not commenting on trans issues. but she said a horrific thing about me for no reason, and she should apologize publicly, imo.
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        7. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted AlbyZee  🌋 🕺🏻 💛 🦞 🦭

          One of the more-awful parts of this discourse is that folks like Bruenig and Singal are effectively arguing that Trans-youth should suffer mental illness and abuse from families because, well, they aren't heterosexual.https://twitter.com/albyselkie/status/1374422872827912192 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          AlbyZee  🌋 🕺🏻 💛 🦞 🦭 @albyselkie
          Replying to @C_Stroop @nberlat
          Noah is a friend & I too have a trans child (now an adult). If I had not advocated for *his* autonomy I know I would have lost him. That’s the alternative Singal & Bruenig are advocating for. It’s horrifying.
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        8. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          If anything, the reality of that abuse means that we who are champions for youth should also support them having greater autonomy over their lives, especially in such abusive situations. @nberlat elaborates further about this.https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-so-scary-49110194?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare …

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        9. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted

          Note, by the way, that transphobia is one of the few respectable bigotries left among Center-Whites. Not that they aren't usually polite White Supremacists and all. But they usually try to hide the worst of their anti-Black racism. Not so with transphobia. https://twitter.com/_moonstorms/status/1374377887852163080 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          This Tweet is unavailable.
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        10. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Kathryn Brightbill  ✒️

          Bruenig, by the way, has already flirted with QAnon...https://twitter.com/KEBrightbill/status/1374269434135773185 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          Kathryn Brightbill  ✒️ @KEBrightbill
          Elizabeth Bruenig a fundamentalist Trad Cath masquerading as a progressive socialist, but accusing people of being pedophiles for supporting trans kids is mask off right wing extremism. She's getting awfully close to going all in and flirting with QAnon.
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        11. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted RiShawn Biddle

          Bruenig is also a COVIDiot... [My pointing that out being the reason why she blocked me some time ago.]https://twitter.com/dropoutnation/status/1313109226122862595 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          RiShawn Biddle @dropoutnation
          Because Bruenig deletes her tweets... pic.twitter.com/tLDf6rKVts
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        12. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          By the way: Lizzy Bruenig and her husband are both polite White Supremacists.pic.twitter.com/csVzI4lHKI

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        13. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Amelia Parody Account (but also her real account)

          In other words, Bruenig's transphobia isn't really shocking. Neither is her slander of Berlatsky. It's who she is. It's exactly who everyone in the Bruenig/Greenwald/Singal crowd is.https://twitter.com/autogynamelia/status/1374228877346627586 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          Amelia Parody Account (but also her real account) @autogynamelia
          Replying to @avram @MarcellaGrid and 2 others
          And keep in mind the context of the context: The whole tattoo thing was just a thin veil for Bruenig's implication that Berlatsky is morally equivalent to a child molester because he's supportive of his trans daughter.
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        14. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          Also among their number: Republicans in state legislatures and in Congress. Including a Democrat in Name Only named Joe Manchin.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/anti-trans-bills-us-transgender-youth-sports …

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        15. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

          Never going to happen.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1374440341969932297 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
          this is why an actual apology from Bruenig would be helpful. pic.twitter.com/U32QqCcYbL
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        16. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Julia Carrie Wong

          'Legislative assault' is the correct term for what is being done against Trans youth by Republican (and even some Democrat) state legislators.https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1374515818008956930 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          Julia Carrie WongVerified account @juliacarriew
          The legislative assault on trans kids playing sports reminds Arkansas state senator Joyce Elliott of being barred from playing basketball with white students in 1966. "All I wanted to do was play," she told @samtlevin https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/anti-trans-bills-us-transgender-youth-sports … pic.twitter.com/ggOVT4giDa
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        17. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          RiShawn Biddle Retweeted Jude Ellison S. Doyle

          More on the respectability and profitability of Transphobia.https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1374402921664712704 …

          RiShawn Biddle added,

          Jude Ellison S. DoyleVerified account @sadydoyle
          I will point out that the reason you're seeing so many pundits go transphobe on main is not just that it's an acceptable bigotry, but because corporations like @SubstackInc are financially incentivizing bigotry by framing it as bold iconoclasm. pic.twitter.com/rCSOjucQem
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        18. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          We must keep in mind that Netflix makes hundreds of millions of dollars off of Dave Chappelle, a great comedian who is also a transphobe. As have concert promoters, Ticketmaster and Viacom CBS. Until Transphobia is no longer profitable, it will be respectable.

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        19. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation Mar 23

          By the way...pic.twitter.com/1pHG2hw7H8

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        20. End of conversation

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