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It never makes the NYT for some reason but some things that anti-trans activists have done recently include:
- bomb threats against childrenâs hospitals and clinics that offer gender affirming care
- targeted campaigns to get trans and nb teachers fired
- harassing gnc children at sports games
Anti-trans activist Elon Musk, whose politics Peters finds elusive, has declared his own daughter âdeadâ bc sheâs trans.
By comparison, the harsh trans activists are chastised by Peters for protesting (with strong language!) against: a US congressman, a billionaire author, and the White House.
ETA:
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Fucking hell. This has to be satire, please?
If not, this twat thinks American Psycho is a goddamn self-help manual?
ETA. Hold on. Thatâs exactly the satire, isnât it?
ETA2: I had to do a quick bit of research.
Never heard of Peters before but now I can say, well played.
Sorry I called you a twat, knee-jerk reaction.
SO hard to tell fact from satire these days.
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I thought you were calling Peters a twat, and my only objection to that is that twats are tough and resilient, while Peters seems to be the opposite.
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Yes. The person who posted that is a trans woman and that was the joke at the end of a series of skeets critical of Peters.
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At first I was.
Then I got it.
Iâd never heard of Peters before today, and that Psycho parody was so close to real life nowadays that I was fooled utterly. Says something, doesnât it?
Fucking timeline this is.
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We need more emojis.
ETA: I noticed you dropped the H for me.
Dog, do I feel seen!
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That approach is a losing game, and a 5 minute overview of the history of Civil Rights in the US would tell anyone that. There is no right way to protest. There is no right way to ask for equal rights. No matter what your approach is, they will find fault in it. Conservatives today love to talk about MLK like he got it right, but at the time, they hated him and they criticized his approach. The only approach they will ever accept is to keep your mouth shut and die.
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⌠like a fart, perhaps? I mean, theyâve been known to edit some movies to make them more âfamily friendlyâ 
without mentioning it anywhere on the packaging, although I could be wrong about that. And the waltons are definitely an example of late-stage capitalism.
I seem to remember reading something somewhere that at the end of their respective lives, MLK and Malcom X were beginning to believe that each otherâs means of protesting was ineffective or something. Iâm probably massively wrong about it as well.
Personally? I will not comply, I will resist with all the strength, energy, and willpower that I possess. And I will make my death as expensive as humanly possible.
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Sounds familiar, donât it?
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Hereâs the whole thread:
To cis folks who consider themselves sympathetic to the cause of trans liberation:
If you were asked âWhat makes a trans woman a woman?â, or some less-respectful variant of that by a transphobe, would you be able to answer?
Repeating a shibboleth with no substantiation isnât working.
Do you know, on a conscious level, why trans women are women, or does your model of gender implicitly align with the gender-conservative dogma of incapable biology?
You can have sloppy answers. Iâve written over 50k words on this topic to explicate it. But you have to have some kind of answer.
Because, frankly, if you simply agree that âsex is whatâs in your pants and gender is whatâs in your heartâ or whatever the genderbread quote du jour is, you have more or less the same idea of us as GCs, and you simply disagree on how polite you should be to us when entertaining our delusions.
This is not a trick. Refusing to answer âwhat is a womanâ just hasnât worked out, and if youâre someone who believes yourself to support trans rights, you need an answer to the question.
Think about it.
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I have posted the research papers demonstrating that neural architecture of trans women is objectively female, and that of trans men is objectively male, but the âbrain in a boxâ analogy posted recently works as well with less need to explain sciency stuff. But honestly, most folks asking those questions will not accept any answer i could give, they think itâs a âgotchaâ question. Itâs actually a demonstration of their ignorance.
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While I find it plausible his quotes were taken out of context, I donât know know anything about A4TE so I donât know if I trust them either.
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