Why is it always one step to *suicide* in this debate? It's this completely lurid and ghoulish debating tactic that gets trotted out as a failsafe. A teacher wants to talk about whether a book is suitable for 9 year olds, and that's supposed to make people end it all?
https://twitter.com/smoestoe/status/1484652650566139905
Honestly, it's like "Hey maybe male bodied people shouldn't be competing in women's athletics," and the response is "I worry someone who hears this will conclude the world would be a better place if they killed themselves." You hear this so much that it's become normal.
Many women have noted that the only other people who consistently use this argument are sociopath ex's who manipulate women into keeping them in their lives: "Love me or my blood on your hands," etc etc
(This, of course, contrats with the opposite scenario, of instant affirmation, a land of endless rainbows, glitter, and lollipops)
The additional bonus of this gambit is that it puts language-policing "allies" in the self-imagined role of hashtagging Oskar Schindlers: By their conceit, telling people what they're allowed to say means saving the trans world from mass self extinction.
trans ppl I've met (& interviewed) seem like strong, confident people. The ppl who seem keen to argue otherwise, bizarrely, are the self-valorizing activists who portray themselves as guardians of delicate martyrs-in-the-making, who would end it all without the #allies' heroism
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