.@johniadarola of The Young Turks, a month ago, tweeting an Onion article mocking journalism on trans rights, and @AnaKasparian, of The Young Turks, today, being the sort of journalist that article was mocking.
This is what trans people mean when they say "fuck cis people."
And here is @cenkuygur, of The Young Turks, saying that trans people are never going to get an apology from them. Ever.
LGBT+ people desperately need progressive cishet politician's and journalist's help, and this crew have just signalled that they intend to abandon them.
Not once in her life has Ana ever been directly referred to in the terms she is talking about. Ever.
What she's actually talking about is health information like this, where, instead of "men," they use "people with testicles" to be trans inclusive.
This has absolutely ZERO effect on my life, and Ana's life is certainly not even slightly impacted by articles that include trans men or non-binary people, but to a trans person, this sort of inclusiveness can be very important. It's basic respect.
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There are multiple U.S. States banning trans healthcare, threatening to imprison parents of trans kids, trying to forcibly detransition trans kids etc. so now is definitely the time for a well-known progressive journalist to tweet out a transphobic talking point.
If they don't lose any audience because of this, they will begin to lend credence to other "reasonable objections" to trans inclusivity, and have "debates" with people who claim to have "concerns about women's rights," who are just transphobes.
This type of "gender critical" guy will spend one tweet decrying the extremism of Posie Parker, and the next saying "my trans friend who agrees with me" is just good politics for him, and that criticism of those trans people is transphobia, as if he's different to Parker. 1/
More and more I see this sort of "gender critical" person only criticise people like Parker so they can maintain the claim they are not extremists themselves. Everyone knows what "My minority friend who agrees with me" is a dogwhistle for.
We all know that homophobes who oppose marriage equality always have a "my gay friend who agrees with me" as a means to defend themselves from claims of homophobia.
It is what people who oppose minority rights ALWAYS do.
It would take an unbiased consideration of one piece of information in Dawkins possession to understand how trite his comparison of the millions of trans people in the world to Rachel Dolezal is, without any need to "discuss":
He. Knows. Rachel. Dolezal's. Name.
Rachel Dolezal's situation is most likely to be an issue with Rachel Dolezal.
If, for example, there were 1000s of white people reporting, as soon as they were able to talk, that they were actually black, there might be grounds for comparison...
Richard Dawkins has always been...shaky...on LGBT+ people. Here he is, a number of years ago, just floating out the idea that maybe the gene for homosexuality in boys is activated by bottle feeding, which, he admits, is totally unevidenced, but is nevertheless 'a good example.'
As a responsible science communicator, you don't float out silly ideas about a minority like this for discussion.
"I was only putting this nonsense out there for discussion," is clearly irresponsible science communication.
You are providing a space for bizarre ideas about LGBT+ people to propigate.
As a scientist, Dawkins can see that trans people exist, by the millions, all over the world, in every country, in the way that Rachel Dolezals don't exist by the millions.
Labour UK's "we're not Tories; we're Tory-lite" campaign on immigration and trans rights has seen their previously unassailable double-digit lead in the polls threaten to fall into single digits, because of course it has.
Just look across the water at the ashes of the Irish Labour party, who decided to abandon their supposed core principles for a little bit of power, over a decade ago, and never recovered, and never will, not in the lifetime of former Labour voters like me.
At least Tories are honest about being Tories. They're so cartoonishly villianous they'll do laughing photoshoots outside of immigrant detention centres. You know exactly what you are getting when you vote for them.
As a cis person, you do not get to ascribe "good" motivations to other cis people who campaign to make trans people's lives worse.
It's like being a straight person and saying that opposition to gay marriage comes from "concern for children," because homophobes say so.
Every single anti-trans person you are talking about @billybragg, thinks this person was a "Shero," and it wasn't in spite of this, it was because of this. This was nothing to do with "concern." She simply hated trans people, and they loved her for it.