Read this:
"The word “trans” has become hopelessly overloaded. And the baffling refusal to acknowledge this fact is behind almost all of the insanity and toxicity surrounding questions of trans inclusion.
[...]
...it’s why more and more, people are unwilling to even try to differentiate between transgender women and fetishistic, predatory men. It’s why articles highlighting the dangers posed by allowing rapists and perverts into female spaces are mistaken for attacks on transgender women in general. It’s why a debate that could so easily have been about compassion and common sense has become a cesspool of misogyny, spite and absolutism."
Read it over and over again. I even edited out a bit that would have stopped you from reading and starting to project again.
The nuance lies in recognising that the entire “trans community” is not the same. Just as, for example, black people aren’t all the same (oh how I wish trans people would stop trying to use black people as emotional leverage, but I guess emotional manipulation is your go-to).
Topically enough, I recently wrote an article in which I said that being afraid to acknowledge the criminal elements in the black community or refusing to talk about black-on-black crime is ridiculous. And actually harms black people more than anybody else.
This fear of acknowledging the predatory and misogynistic elements with the trans community and refusal to talk about the fact that a male doesn't become a female the instant he says so, is ridiculous. And harms trans people more than anybody else.
There are millions of people out there who support trans people and trans rights. But you can't keep insisting that we have to ignore women's privacy and safety to be on your side.
Because I see women on an almost daily basis say that they used to be supportive until they were exposed to the misogyny and disregard for women's safety that permeates trans discourse. Especially online. You can tell yourself that they're all TERFs or "right-wing" and that they were never really allies anyway, but you'll be wrong. And you'll be sticking your head in the sand about a problem that affects you and the wider trans community. The extremely vocal extremes of trans activism are turning countless people away.
