Steve QJ
2 min readJul 4, 2022

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I am so goddamned tired of seeing people like yourself sling around the oppression of black people, that you clearly don't understand at all, in order to make a completely unrelated point about trans rights. We are not a morality smokescreen for your totally unrelated issue.

What exactly do you know about the three-fifths compromise? Quick, without running to Wikipedia. What, exactly, does it have to do with trans women gaining access to female prisons or competing in female sports. It's absolutely repugnant and I see it all the time. Never, coincidentally, from black trans people...

As for me being "radicalised," no, I haven't been radicalised. I watched a movie made by a scummy human being that it was only possible to make because the problem he's talking about really exists. Because these incoherent ideas are locked behind an echo chamber so tight that a professor realised for th first time that his definition of the class of human being s he studies is meaninglessly circular. Because ideas like these are being used to justify the blind, uncritical medicalisation of children and policies that expose women to an increased risk of sexual violence.

The difference is, his solution to this problem is to claim that trans people simply don't exist and ban all care related to trans people, and mine is to stop the toxicity and have an honest dialogue where people like you don't try to mine black history for victimhood points.

Mine is to describing a conversation with a teenager who is going through puberty and is thinking about having irreversible surgeries and taking cross-sex hormones for the rest of their lives, as "conversion therapy." It's to acknowledge the there are differences between male and female bodies in sport and find a solution to trans inclusion in sport that is both fair and inclusive. It's to have the "high priests of language" stop policing language by edict as if, once they've decided what a word now means, everybody who disagrees is a bigot who hates trans people.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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