Yeah, I don't dislike Contra as a person, I think she has a sort of empathy/open-mindedness and semi self-awareness that her followers and fellow TRAs lack, to be honest. Even back then I found it incredibly weird to witness the dogpile that resulted from that one five-second clip. She wasn't endorsing Buck's views, or even giving a platform, but any amount of association at all is enough to throw a person to the wolves. It's made even worse by the fact that if you dig into Buck's history and current life, Buck is an incredibly reasonable and stand-up person.

I recently started watching Blaire White's videos (she who must not be named, I always avoided her like the plague before) and find that my views on identity politics line up almost completely with hers, and she can be surprisingly articulate in a debate, though her style of showmanship and cheap personal shots at people can be off-putting sometimes. I think it's important to have outspoken trans people like Blaire, though, who are adamant about the fact that biological sex is real and has real implications, and that genital 'preferences' aren't transphobic, and that trans people pushing others to deny reality is harming not only their own community, but everyone else's.