Thread by @LarryDixonTGK

@supership79 She's also talking about a LEAD character. We've had numerous enbie, ace & trans characters, but nailing the emotions in a trans, internal PoV lead--it's too much for her. What would actually help: a token trans PoV done badly, or excellent non-PoV characters?

@supership79 Misty is a very tired old lady. The amount of emotional hammering an author takes is astounding--a level of intrusiveness & danger that's horrible for someone who just wants to write some nice stories to help people feel better. She's a person, not a panacea.

@supership79 And, she blows it sometimes. I've been on panels where she's just frozen. Anxiety can overhwlem her. Yes, she DOES pick lousy words despite being a pro author, because she's a PERSON. She gets terrified. She stammers & still, she does her best.

@supership79 So this thing off a crappy-ass website gets rolled out when someone wants to start some shit w/her, & they purposely miss the point to cause trouble: Misty's saying she is NOT a good enough writer to do a trans lead WELL.
She said this at a time when we not only had

@supership79 hate mail for representing non-white-hetero people at ALL, we also had a (now dead) murderer as our FIFTH stalker. Imagine trying to be good to millions of people while under emotional & physical siege--not hard for a trans, enbie or LGBT person to empathize with, you'd think.

@supership79 And STILL, this fumbled humility of saying "I'm not a good enough writer for that" gets trotted out by shit-stirrers to boost themselves up & it's just trolling at this point.
OBVIOUSLY, by the track record of over 100 as-inclusive-as-we-can-manage books, we are NOT anti-trans.

@supership79 We have a reveal in what we're working on now that a character readers have long known is M2F trans, & that was plotted in around 2003. Misty knows what she can do well, & what she does badly.
She's clearly saying she can not get deep enough into a trans mind to write an

@supership79 OMNISCIENT PoV trans character WELL. How that gets interpreted by ANYONE as "anti-trans" is incomprehensible to us.
She also said that at a time when we were in danger, scared, anxious, & the publishing industry was a _wreck_ for genre authors, & we STILL fought the good fight.

@supership79 This sick-minded "if you aren't A, then you must be Z" shit we got from people because we don't portray THEIR transformation, origins, kinks, conditions, morals, or fetishes as a world-changing, center-of-story feature is CONSTANT.

Yet we're still trying to do the right things.

@supership79 Trans, enbie, ace, and more have been characters in our work. If a trans person wants a viewpoint trans character in a fantasy novel, done perfectly, they need to use their intimate knowledge of the innumerable details we, ourselves, can't convey.

We're only so good. We know it.

@supership79 So, everyone, PLEASE, if you find someone shitstirring, using that screencap of a fearful, selfconscious, but still unbroken old lady to score some "Ah HAH!" points off of a lifelong trans ally, copy THIS thread back to them. And tell'm to GTFO w/that shit. We're STRONG allies.

@supership79 We're strong enough allies to know that doing a crappy-ass, underinformed trans lead would be INSULTING, like we were tossing y'all a bone & checking another thing off some "that'll shut'm up" list. FFS y'all, don't attack your own side.

@supership79 @threadreaderapp please be so kind as to unroll this?