Today in transphobia (Part 1)

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Watched this last nightā€¦ it included some unfortunate and unnecessary transphobia, I thoughtā€¦ one of the pyschos torturing the main characters was named ā€œCandy Truck Womanā€, but was a man in a dressā€¦

Also, itā€™s full of violence against women, so not sure Iā€™d really recommend it just for that aloneā€¦

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Did they have to make room for the serial killers convention from Sandman?

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So he was looking out for his residuals?

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Voldemort defends Petunia Dursley :laughing:

And that article is written by a known TER which explains why it is so awful and one sided.

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Ugh. Thatā€™s not good.

I saw an average person interviewed on a (London) street say something like, ā€œHeā€™s not the worst conservativeā€“heā€™s a step upā€“but make no mistake, heā€™s still a Tory.ā€

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Pie the TERs!!!

Yay GIF by YoungerTV

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Itā€™s amazing what you find in the mainstream press outside the UK.

As Christa Peterson, a graduate student of Philosophy who is often critical of transphobia in academia and media has pointed out, Jennifer Bilek isnā€™t screaming into the void; her ideas about gender have found a warm reception on the right and among so-called ā€œgender-critical feministsā€.

Anti-transgender groups like the LGB Alliance and Womenā€™s Declaration International have praised Bilekā€™s theories and shared them widely. In 2021, Kara Dansky appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight as the spokeswoman for Womenā€™s Declaration International and urged viewers to visit Bilekā€™s blog.

The Tablet article is already making the rounds on the far-right.

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ā€œInstead, Bilek, who lionizes figures like Aileen Wuornos and Valerie Solanas, derides transgender, genderqueer, and nonbinary identities as ā€œSynthetic Sex Identitiesā€, a phrase she apparently made up.ā€œ

X Files, Mulder and Scully Cheers Beers

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Itā€™s nice to see some mainstream places picking up on this story that the community has been reporting for ages. Weā€™ve been aware of this guy for at least 10 years.

ā€œExpertā€ formerly slated to testify in favor of Florida ban on trans health care once called to include a ā€œPā€ for pedophiles in LGBTQ

In one tweet, James Cantor claimed ā€œpedophilia is NOT inherently wrong or harmfulā€

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Didnā€™t Valerie Solanas spend time with Candy Darling? Or was that a fiction made up for that movie?

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As far as I know, yes. I think she was more ambivalent about trans people than cis men for sure. But I think she wasnā€™t at all trans positive. But I really donā€™t know.

I read her manifesto a long time ago - I think she would have allowed trans women & drag queens to live.

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