Good morning. Did I disappoint enough people yesterday for a different reason than I disappointed so many others last week?

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Replying to @gorskon
1/2 No, your brand has already been fatally undermined by your terrible handling of criticism of trans ideological influence on clinical practice. This is a shame - it looks like you do some good work in other areas (e.g. anti-vaxxer myths), but you're not now a trusted source...
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Replying to @Marxoid1
Funny you should mention antivaxxers. Over the last six weeks I’ve noticed a lot of similarities between “gender critical” rhetoric and antivax rhetoric.
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"I'm not against [vaccines/trans people], I just have legitimate safety concerns." "I'm worried that they might spread it to other people." "Anything less than 100% effectiveness is an unacceptable risk."
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Replying to @KadePeregrine @gorskon and
"but what about teh autisms!?" There's a slight difference there in that the conspiracy theories run in different directions. "Vaccines cause autism" and "autistic children are recruited into transness". Both are heavily anti-autistic, though.
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Also heavily anti-trans, as I’m learning.
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I'd be interested to see a venn diagram of conspiracy theories that identifies how they all overlap.
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I'm learning that there is significant overlap between the "gender critical" crowd and antivaxxers. It's nowhere near a circle, but it's large enough to be disturbing to me.
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Replying to @gorskon @KadePeregrine and
More disturbing to me are the number of self-identified movement skeptics who are "gender critical" and rant about "gender ideology." Some are people whom I used to admire.
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I think some of these people could really do with reading more work by disabled people.
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Some of these "gender critical" movement skeptics even parrot conspiracy theory nonsense without apparently realizing that it's a conspiracy theory. One I know was even ranting about "cancel culture" and how you can't say the things he says without being called a transphobe.
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Dammit. I can't find my "I am being SILENCED!" meme
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Replying to @KadePeregrine @gorskon and
"we can't say these things" say people parroting points that are made in more than 1 newspaper article *per day* (and that's just one paper)
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