Thread by @ErinInTheMorn

Alright so anyway. Watched Natalie/Contrapoints. I'm going to type out my thoughts. I hope I've built up good will with all of you to say these things, and I don't think any of this is outside of my character and who I am.

It all boils down to... love your neighbor as yourself.

I don't know Natalie. I don't know many of you. Twitter is an impersonal space for us to share our personal stories. I have been shown great love here and I'm so, so thankful for it. You've all helped me grow as a person and become someone I am proud of.

Similarly, all of my life, I've always tried to help others grow as people to. Central tenets to my personality and morality have always been: forgiveness, seeing good in people, and helping my fellow neighbors grow and showing them love.

So I say this... there have been people in my church who have said and even dug in on worse things than people Natalie has had on her platform. I could have left I could have rejected them. They would have potentially gone on without me to go in who knows what direction.

Together though, with these tenets, we grew and though there have been incidents, I know that I have personally helped move the needle for people.

We're all human, trying to navigate this world and not screw it all up.

I... just wish we would show more love to one another.

I want to add specifically in Natalie's case that I have recognized something in her videos starting with Transtrenders and then Beauty. Her dysphoria is leaking through, and its an insidious dysphoria I've recognized in other trans people and I'm worried for her.

If she really is turning to xanax and alcohol, that's not good for her. It appears to me, another trans person, that she is dealing with a heavy dysphoria spiral and contextually, she's probably not in a great place right now.

Sometimes we need to step back and not hold hate in our hearts. We've got too much directed at us already. I believe that putting love into the world liberally makes it a better place.

Thanks for hearing me out. I'm usually fairly milquetoast but this is what I've got to say.