honestly I hate that it results in "well, they can't help being gay/trans" and pseudoscientific attempts to "fix" it. But still
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I've read some really interesting queer critiques of btw. One poped up here: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/08/why-straight-men-have-sex-with-each-other.html …
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oh totally. Straight peeps can be gay as hell ;). The words we use are often convenient, context-sensitive, stigmatized, etc.
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I know your work tries to serve science, but given credit for pragmatism see why being "disproven" in popular press undermines?
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sorry, I tried too hard to fit everything in one tweet. Dropped too many important connectors. Retry:
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I know your work looks at the science, data, and tries to create a picture that reflects a scientific awareness of transness...
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but we still have a need for pragmatic activism that adjusts its message to best serve trans lives. Your platform is larger ...
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than many of ours, and whether your view is popular or not, it can end up undermining our activism due to its accessibility...
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which is not to take a hardline stance against what you do, but the rhetoric directed your way is often self-aware, necessary.
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sure, but as a journo it is not my job to agree with a given line of activism, even if (especially if?) I agree w/underlying goals
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I'm sure you care about lives of trans kids as we do, but we definitely know our rhetorical situations better than you do...
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sure. But there's a value to determining the truth of the matter, and born this way for gender ID has consequence for everyone
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