Oh yeah, totally lack of awareness.
Pretty much.
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Note yet again - the majority of trans people arenāt straight. But they know that because itās been known and been stated for years to other bigots.
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Anything to turn people on each other, it seems.
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For a second I thought Mermaids was engaging in such fuckwittery, and I was confused.
I thought, but arenāt they a pro-trans organization?
Fortunately, itās just a case of them fighting back.
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Nope- theyāre the gooduns - just like DadTrans!
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That speaks to the failure of modern medicine to properly care for all peopleā¦ and the problems of having a for-profit medical care system, that it will deprioritize certain kinds of care in favor of things that are going to make moneyā¦
Also, they have an awesome twitter handleā¦
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Update on thatā¦
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Good on ya, Halle.
Now if people can start thinking about this before acting.
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Right? Itās not like we havenāt seen this beforeā¦ Scar Jo was a recent example, but did no one discuss this stuff back when Eddie Redmayne was in that Danish Girl movie? Or when Cillian Murphy was in Breakfast on Pluto? 
Iām probably missing other examples, too.
[ETA] Come to think of it, Neil Jordan directed the Crying Game, too didnāt heā¦ which starred Jaye Davidson as Dil, right? 
He clearly cares about the Troubles, but he keeps having cisgendered men playing transwomen?
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Decent coverage- and a very good response by the actor. Hopefully educational for Hollywood.
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Thanks for posting this. I just read the open letter being discussed:
In the context of this topic, I will only add that free speech that denies the right to exist in dignity and equality of a particular group of humans is hate speech: grounded in ignorance; presented in bad faith; and undeserving of either reputable platforms or of serious consideration (even in opposition) by the kind of distinguished people who signed this open letter.
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For some of those names, thatās pushing it. Some of those names are fear that they wonāt get to indulge in the same hate-speech.
Remember, freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences for speech. Those things they cite are private enterprise and private citizens taking action for the most part. Not government. They want freedom from consequences.
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The list is almost equally split between people I highly respect, people who leave a bad taste in my mouth, people I despise, and those Iāve never heard of. What they all have in common is that theyāre privileged members of Americaās cultural elite (hence my calling them ādistinguishedā, even though I disagree with a lot of them ā including ones who flirt with hate speech).
Their signatures on this highly flawed letter indicate worse than that: they want to have things both ways, so that they can continue to claim to be champions of free speech even at the cost of enabling TERFs, Nazis, and others who are taking advantage of liberal ideals to push very iliberal garbage (the existence of which should be acknowledged but not debated as something that has any merit). Itās like none of them are familiar with Popperās Paradox.
A lot of it is also protecting members of their club (ETA: one which, ironically, does a heck of a lot of gatekeeping), and Iād be willing to bet that it was Rowling who got the ball rolling here.
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Yes. They are complaining that people use their free speech to disagree with them. And want to deny them that right.
While at the same time stigmatizing them and denying their basic human rights.
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Still - thatās an interesting way to announce your retirement from public life, Jenny Boylan.
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