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There might be some basis for truth here, but I was also being polite (you didn't know that from my reply). Let's go full quote, just so people don't get the im
by CJefferson 6y ago
There might be some basis for truth here, but I was also being polite (you didn't know that from my reply). Let's go full quote, just so people don't get the impression that Magdalen was trying to make a fair and reasoned point:
"You are fucking blackface actors. You aren't women. You're men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women. Fuck you and your dirty fucking perversions. Our oppression isn't a fetish you pathetic, sick, fuck".
- zozbot234 6y agoYes, but the reason why that attack is so contentious in the first place is that it hits at a real weakness in trans activism. It was trans activists themselves who first politicized the narrative around things like autogynephilia and rapid-onset dysphoria, by branding these ideas as anti-trans and bigoted no matter how "fair and reasoned" expressed - and this is something that creates real harm, as Rowling obliquely points out by referencing the "detransitioning" trans and contrasting them with folks who took a far more cautious approach to transitioning in the past.
- CJefferson 6y agoFirstly, that attack is conentious because it calls all trans people "sick fucks". That isn't really a conversation topic. Also, I keep hearing about "detransitioning", but can't find any evidence it is actually significantly growing -- numers who regret getting surgery seem to sit around, or below, 1%.