The fact of the matter is that bad actors have exploited cis people's disgust and reticence when it comes to viewing trans existence as just as worth of dignity, respect, and support. So even when we're trying to talk about a blatant attack on our rights, people turn up with conspiracy theories.

The wider political apparatus of the West and the US in particular is determined to declare trans existence an illegitimate way of being.

If you can't bother to understand and empathise with a tiny, vilified, relentlessly attacked population in the face of that, what good are you?

Emma (the author) is also currently crowdfunding for healthcare, please do support her if you can.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-em-ge...

you should always be too embarrassed to lord a child's marginalized status as a member of society's most disempowered group over their head to "dunk" on them. because that's embarrassing behavior.

"well they can block if they don't like it" lol that's like challenging a child to a fist fight and then being like "well you can run away if you don't like it." do you hear yourself? embarrassing. pick on someone your own size eh

i'll never understand the kind of adult for whom a child being wrong is an invitation to exert your own power by invoking their minor status rather than a signal to engage all that adult self-regulation you're so proud of

The feminist facade of the British GC panic has always been paper-thin. It is the feminism of the comfortable, middle-class tradwife and the women who aspire to that ideal: the womb of the nation who reproduces the regime's favored citizens in exchange for "men's protection", whatever that's worth.

That it has never been worth very much does not make it any less of a coveted ideal or effective incentive.