I doubt she’s going anywhere. She’s just embracing her privilege and membership in America’s cultural elite (a position she mistakenly believes will protect her just as much as she felt she was before she transitioned). I’ll defer to your opinion, but in general I’d assume that a trans person who wants to give a fair hearing and good-faith debate in reputable platforms to TERFs is indulging in a luxury that most other trans people can’t afford.
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I think this summed up my thoughts better than I could have:
These are people who are tired of getting “canceled on Twitter” and getting pushback for spouting their opinions that nobody outside their own bubbles actually wants, likes, or cares about.
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They want free speech by silencing other free speech. When people speak out against you and drown out your bad idea, when they are allowed to express the toxicity of your idea, when they say that they don’t want to listen to your idea, that your book is bad and inauthentic, that is speech.
Saying “shut up, TERF” is also speech. Refusing to buy a book or cancelling a subscription is also speech.
Theirs is very a “free speech for me but not thee” proposition.
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But she is losing her ability to speak for the community- which is what her fame is based upon.
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What’s more, they all have a much larger, more secure platform than any of us, many through the so-called meritocratic system of the university.
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Today is increasingly a “claw my own brain out of my skull through the nose like the Egyptians of old” kind of day…
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I’m sure, according to the ideals of the letter she signed, Atwood will give their opinion due consideration and engage in dispassionate and rational debate with them so as not to constrict the lifeblood of a liberal society. /s
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I think she’s about to find out that if she doesn’t pick a side in this fight then one will be picked for her. I guess things could be worse than being abandoned by the TERFs though.
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Checks list…
Not surprised, not surprised, not surprised…
Wynton Marsalis 
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She who must not be named is just perfect.
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Noam Chomsky supporting JKR will be remembered like Noam Chomsky doubting the Cambodean genocide, a huge mistake that threatens to overshadow what good he has done.
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I can’t envisage a world where a dude with a beard, pink wig and rolled up socks for tits has any position in a death camp apart from “victim”.
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Yeah, the casual transphobia of “a dude with rolled up socks for tits” is just…
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And his pro-Serbian hot takes during the Yugoslav wars…
There is much to like in Chomsky’s work, but he sometimes gets things absolutely wrong. He’s human.
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Do you remember when Ken Livingstone compared a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard?
That is what the TERFs are doing to us.
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