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[–][deleted] 41 insightful - 1 fun41 insightful - 0 fun42 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's ok, I don't consider myself a trans ally and this is just reinforcing that decision for me.

Comparing calling a man he to a slur is ridiculous, but what else should we expect from a community that constantly uses slurs against homosexuals?

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's interesting is in the comments they say the person is mentally unstable and probably lies about everything including "identity" but for some reason you can't question that identity even if you know that the person isn't serious and is actually a crazy person.

Their arguments aren't terrible in terms of the way people can't seem to understand having 2 ideas in their head at the same time... Just the way they deify self ID is so weird. People do need to agree that you can exist outside of sectarian narratives though. I do think that doing so would actually hurt their own TRA propaganda which might make sense as to why so many of them use the "no true Scotsman" fallacy when one of them does something wrong. They need the narrative to have TRAs be the eternal victim in all cases otherwise it isn't as easy to make ridiculous arguments that minor criticisms are "literal violence."

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 24 insightful - 8 fun24 insightful - 7 fun25 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

What's interesting is in the comments they say the person is mentally unstable and probably lies about everything including "identity" but for some reason you can't question that identity even if you know that the person isn't serious and is actually a crazy person.

"He's not really trans but let's continue enabling him, it will surely do alot of good to our public image".

[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If Chris Chan claimed to be just-plain-old-gay, and people doubted the sincerity of his claims, I can't see any gay rights group rushing to claim him as one of theirs. I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to quietly disavow him.

Why are transactivists so hung up on protecting trans-identified predators, I wonder?