everyone reads things online. or are you sitting there printing out the cass review page by page before reading it lol.
No, I've been reading, living, thinking about this for over 40 years. I have a entire wall of books on gender stuff – academic, autobiographical, feminist, legal, polemic, all sorts. You're just another Johnny come lately with no real skin in the game, except perhaps the need to argue on the internet.
in the eyes of some, anything that disputes the accepted viewpoint becomes "trans hostile" by definition
There is no "accepted viewpoint" in the trans community. No "trans ideology". We're like economists. Put two trans people in a room and you get three opinions or whatever. But yes, positing an "accepted viewpoint" (a definitive strawman) and seeking to "dispute" it usually is trans hostile or else quickly becomes so.
I wasn't comparing trans people with the Israeli state, I was comparing trans people's views on this topic with Jewish people's views on the Israel/Palestine conflict, in the specific sense that a person shouldn't just take their position based on the majority view of a particular impacted group.
No, you take your position based on crap you've read online. Which is endless now. Seemingly every ignorant non-trans fucker gets a column to spout misinformed or deliberately malicious nonsense.
And then there are people like JK Rowling, Graham Linehan, Jesse Singal. You can see their career paths on trans issues. They're always the same. Relatively mild at first, just wanting answers to a few questions that occurred to them (as though we hadn't heard and answered those questions a thousand times already), getting slowly more and more obsessed, until they spend a substantial part of every day, believing and propagating any ridiculous nonsense about teh evil trans. Or in Linehan's case all day every day. And you call
us a cult.
doing an emoji and saying for fucks sake is not an argument. you can't just dismiss a point by scoffing at the writer.
See, that's the thing. I don't want to argue point by point with whatever new drivel Singal has come out with. A rolling eyes emoji will do perfectly well there. I don't want to argue points with
you either. Padraig can do that, has done that, and it seems has stopped doing that, likely because he now feels the same way I do. How we all do. Which is to want to beat you round the head with a baseball bat until you shut the fuck up and leave us alone.
But it wouldn't actually do any good, because there's always another moron on a forum, just wanting answers, just wanting to debate, slowly working themselves up into a permanent frenzy about shit that doesn't concern them anyway. Go take up gardening ffs.
