What the hell are you talking about?! I "literally" (do you realise how much you overuse this word?😅) mentioned the award you discussed. Are you even reading my replies?
"The reward you're referring to is the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, which she also won that year."
Dave says she was Woman of the Year her first year being a woman. He's obviously referring to this award. It wasn't a "gotcha", you're simply saying things which aren't true and I'm correcting you.
Case in point, "plenty of cis women are considered trans..."
Really?? Plenty? And considered trans by who? If they're cis women, then they're not trans by definition. Not sure if this is a refence to intersex women, who are not anything to do with trans people except the vanishingly small percentage (of that already vanishingly small percentage of people) who identify as trans.
Look, this is feeling like a waste of time. Mainly beacuse these responses are getting so long that we're talking past most of each other's points. Like what are we even arguing about anymore? What's the key point of disagrement?
If you don't want to acknowledge that Dave's analogy was a perectly fair representation of how some women feel (particularly women who would describe themselves as "TERFs"), that's fine. If you think, when Dave mentioned that Caitlyn won the award for Woman of the year, he was talking about an award that had nothing to do with women, that's fine. If you want to claim that a simple mistake in my article is "highly dangerous to trans people", that's fine. If you want to argue that the disingenuous, cruel and vindictive elements in the online community should have no impact on how this very small community is perceived, that's fine.
The fact is, whether you're willing to acknowledge it or not, you're wrong about all these things in a practical sense. I sincerely want the trans community to thrive. But the inability to honestly examine itself (and in the case of this special, laugh at itself), and to acknowledge the flaws in the way its "representatives" behave, will win exactly zero friends. You can twist words and ignore facts all you want. You can call it respectability politics all you want. But I see people being driven to harder and harder line positions against the trans community because of this blind self-centredness.
