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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I respect that to some extent, but I think arriving at an objective truth will always fall behind keeping peers alive.
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and I know that's a false set of opposites if painted as such. I'm sure we both care about trans lives, but ...
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activists understand local rhetorical situation better than the "objective truth" journo who gets trotted out by detractors.
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well we're talking about different issues here. Overall I (perhaps unsurprisingly) take the Dregerian view that truth and SJ gotta
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reinforce one another
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I agree in the eventual goals department (tm), but immediate practical concerns don't always have time to sit around and wait.
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it's not always about objective scientific truth, but combating the perspectives held by detractors. Truth sometimes wins.
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