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Don’t Let’s be Beastly to the Bigots!
Is now the time for trans people to open any sort of dialogue with those whose primary goal has always been our literal obliteration?
With the GRA out of the way, there has been an uptick in the number of well-meaning liberal types suggesting that maybe now we should be looking for ways to re-open lines of communication betwixt trans folks and transphobes. Is that a realistic proposition? Or mere pie in the sky proving, once again, how the vast majority of commentators have no clue as to what has been going on?
So, yes. I am talking to a friend. They are liberal, with a free speech pedigree as long as my arm. They have influence amongst those folks collectively referred to as “movers and shakers”. And recently they wondered, aloud, if now that the GRA was behind us it might not be possible for some of the reasonable folks on “both sides” to sit down and build bridges.
Good to talk?
Because, in an entirely reasonable world, that is what reasonable people do. They talk. They debate. They discuss. In the end, those wielding the sword of Truth, not to mention the shield of Righteousness will prevail. That’s how things are.
You can kill me, grind my corpse to dust…
