Guppy 🌹

I don't know if this is directed at me, but it has nothing to do with people potentially abusing the legislation; it's about the legal precedent it sets for regulating speech in the future

which would be totally impossible otherwise, right? when the government (or, given a few years, google/amazon’s private police force) wants to get down to brass tacks and throw folks in jail for saying the word “unionize,” no one is like “hmm i wish we’d done that pronouns thing”

the techno-corporate state assemblage does what it does, zones of exception have turned inside out and swallowed deviant political subjectivities — all civil rights rhetoric is flawed, i just think we should let trans people live a little without blaming them for mad trads

If you have so poor an expectation for rights why make an exception for trans people? Why should you care at all?

because i think promoting the idea that expansion of legal protections to trans people is the bridge too far and that rights advocates will have thus brought backlash upon themselves is inherently transphobic and analogous to victim-blaming

There is no equivalent law for non-trans people that curtails freedom of speech in this manner. It is not an extension. You think little of civil rights but are happy to moralise when fighting this particular corner

but there are such laws, lots of them