‘Gender-critical’ ideology is just dualism 5-min ⏰
The ‘GC’ worldview is a split between good and evil, physical and mental
It incredibly claims to vaporize all gender roles despite working to uphold gender. It focuses on what people can or can’t be, do, or have due to their sex.
These aren’t innocent questions. It’s an anti-trans agenda. 7-min ⏰⏰
‘Gender-criticalism’ is linked to right-wing agendas
Today ‘the religious and neo-fascist right,’ with so-called gender-criticals, ‘believe the optimum number of trans people is zero,’ Brynn Tannehill says.
‘Adult Human Female’ documentary 21-min ⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰
As transphobic as you’d expect
Adult Human Female did not interview a trans person. What’s in the hour-and-a half documentary, in chronological order. I have opinions. I make remarks.
If you worry about sex development, please look at environmental inputs (DD)
If you skip over this information about the effect that environmental inputs like pollution have on children’s sex development, maybe you’re not really worried about children’s sex development after all. Maybe you’re just worried about trans people existing.
Skeptical of trans people above all 5-min ⏰
They could have been skeptical of science denialism and supernaturalism instead
Some theories, beliefs, and agendas are false, and their falseness merits skepticism. But trans people are real. We shouldn’t be the object of skepticism.
I won’t tell you who: 30 terrible ways to express ‘skepticism’ of transgender people 13-min ⏰⏰⏰
For people who have been bothered by these arguments, who want to see them unpacked, and who will gladly avoid repeating or amplifying them in the future.
Being transgender is homophobic? That’s trope, not truth 53-min ⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰
Breakdown of ‘A Heretic’s Manifesto’ (2023) by Brendan O’Neill
They publish screeds without speaking to a single one of us, which goes beyond paternalism and shows an intent to control us in ways that are harmful to us.
He says your academic evidence is ‘laundered’ 11-min ⏰⏰⏰
If you believe oppression is real, Peter Boghossian doesn’t think your academic work is real
Conservatives ask for their feelings to be validated and for “Western Civilization” to be saved through intellectual debate. Can we meta-debate that?
Why fascists target gender transition 3-min ⏰
Just by existing, we overturn the alleged “mythic past.” We expose its fictions. Fascists don’t want us to exist because we are outside their time.
Transphobia speaks in the voice of surveillance capitalism 11-min ⏰⏰⏰
It believes it knows, and can shape, who we are and what we’ll do
Surveillance capitalists believe in determinism, not free will. Transphobes, taking their cue, reject the gender freedom by which some of us are trans.
One of the knowledge-dominance memes used against trans people (in Spanish) (DD)
Everything is subjective and contains its opposite 5-min ⏰
This is not a reason to reject trans people and their language
They’re using shared language in an off-center way because the shared language doesn’t center them . Not their fault. Should they reinvent language?
In myth, the extra-binary thing explains everything 5-min ⏰
Trans people right now are the bridge fascists stomp on with their boots. Fascists need the bridge and also like to complain about it while stomping.
Why transphobia teaches us to be terrified of regret 8-min ⏰⏰
Modern transphobia is a fascist cult. It is related to the destruction of the planet. Both kinds of oppression are related to the concept of Regret.
The false narrative of regrettable transness 9-min ⏰⏰
One function of ‘regret’ in anti-trans narrative
It’s the ‘good queer’/’bad queer’ distinction. The scapegoater projects; do they accept their own queerness? The idea of trans people is a scapegoat.
How transphobia teaches cis people to feel entitled to know who’s trans 15-min ⏰⏰⏰
If someone isn’t allowed to have their gender at a key moment, they aren’t really allowed to have it at all. Cis people don’t own trans people’s info.
Cis-supremacists aren’t persuadable (DD)
People who believe they have identities (Free inquiry, June/July 2022) 10-min ⏰⏰
[Re: Robyn Blumner defending Richard Dawkins]
Let’s not keep falling back on the idea that certain men are pre-approved to say whatever they like. Their free speech isn’t a stand-in for everyone else’s.
SPLC’s CAPTAIN report against ‘anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience’ (DD)
Transphobes who believe in gender identity (DD)
People who are anxious about surveillance capitalism shift blame to trans people (DD)
‘Instrumentarianism’: It’s not what totalitarianism was (DD)
Let people dress however they like (DD)
Of course you can feel like a girl: Reflections on a recent anti-transgender essay (DD)
Why the US worried more about trans people’s marriages than their IDs (surveillance) (DD)
Jordan Peterson on gender quotas in politics (re: National Post article, Dec. 11, 2018) (DMB)
Is your clothing the wrong gender? 5-min ⏰
A proposed Texas law would classify you as a drag performer.
A proposed law in Texas says there’s a proper, legal way to wear clothing and makeup—and to have a body. You must look like your “gender assigned at birth”.
Yes, Virginia, there are brainworms 3-min ⏰
And some conspiracy theorists do have them
Yes, Virginia, there are brainworms. They exist as certainly as transphobia exists and abounds attempting to morally mandate trans people out of existence.
Tucker Lieberman 