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mongic
3y ago
> right now he's tweeting like a full-blown transphobic maniac on Twitter Are you sure? Seems he's mostly been tweeting about SpaceX and Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=from:elonmusk&src=typed_query&am
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mongic
3y ago
> No one has to deny that she was trans. No-one is denying that Yaniv is trans-identifying. What gender-critical feminists (and others) are denying are his claims of being a woman. The question is whether social media platforms should co
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3y ago
Everyone agrees that this individual is trans-identifying. The issue is that under Twitter's previous rules, they were compelling gender-critical feminists to pretend that this male is a woman, under the threat of being banned from the
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mongic
3y ago
Twitter's rule against 'misgendering' didn't just apply to people who were engaging in harassment though, it applied to everyone, and led to many campaigners for women's rights being banned from the platform. One ex
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3y ago
It depends on the point of view from which such criticism is being made. Someone who holds a belief that trans-identifying males are women, but considers that they should be excluded from women's sports because of the long-lasting pube
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mongic
3y ago
Referring to a male as 'he' isn't really in the same ballpark as throwing around racial slurs and so on. When applied to a male who calls himself a woman, it's merely a philosophical disagreement over whether said male c
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3y ago
Being permitted to 'misgender' is relevant to criticizing policies that allow males to compete in women's and girl's sports. If you're citing one of the many examples of when this has happened, but are compelled to