They’re attempting to make describing someone in terms of their sex a dehumanising act of hate speech.
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And they’ve excluded sex from the acceptable ways of identifying a group.
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The point about sex being dehumanisation is framed in the classic TRA turn of phrase ‘reducing someone to their genitals.’
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It’s very very obvious the convo that’s been going on in Twitter HQ that produced exactly this formulation.
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Women have been receiving violent rape and death threats on this platform for years, and did they get their shit together????
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But now we need a new policy to stop people being ‘reduced to their genitals.’ OH RLY? Why could that be?
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This is an attempt - by the major platform of global public discourse - to make it hate speech to distinguish male and female people.
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We have to work out how to scream about this from the hilltops.
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I’m going to write something. Can ppl send their ‘best’(worst) screenshots of sex erasure/denial pls?
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Given the small percentage of people identifying as trans and the hugely disproportionate amount of influence and reach they have into the framing of public policy and discourse, am I the only one who thinks there’s something really fucking sinister going on here?
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I'd like to know what dirt they have on which people.
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