Today in transphobia (Part 1)

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Watched this last night… it included some unfortunate and unnecessary transphobia, I thought… one of the pyschos torturing the main characters was named ā€œCandy Truck Womanā€, but was a man in a dress…

Also, it’s full of violence against women, so not sure I’d really recommend it just for that alone…

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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. That’s not good.

I saw an average person interviewed on a (London) street say something like, ā€œHe’s not the worst conservative–he’s a step up–but make no mistake, he’s still a Tory.ā€

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Pie the TERs!!!

Yay GIF by YoungerTV

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It’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 isn’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 Women’s Declaration International have praised Bilek’s theories and shared them widely. In 2021, Kara Dansky appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight as the spokeswoman for Women’s Declaration International and urged viewers to visit Bilek’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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It’s nice to see some mainstream places picking up on this story that the community has been reporting for ages. We’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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Didn’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 wasn’t at all trans positive. But I really don’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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