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Hate, debate and conversation
Why trans folk won’t engage with exterminationist ideology dressed up as “academic freedom”
Trans people are being scolded, yet again, for their failure to uphold western values of open debate and academic inquiry. Except, when “debate” is no more than out and out attack on the right of a group to exist, it ceases to be debate and becomes something else. Hate, for starters.
By dis-engaging, we are doing no more than refusing to participate in our own extermination.
Now read on.
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Well, damnit, Shon! You did a great book. But if you’re going to use your evil mind-reading powers to steal my ideas i’m having words with my agent!
What’s this, jane? Murder on the trans floor? A falling out in the gender incongruent cabal? Not at all. Just my reading this excellent interview with Shon and noting that whatever differences we have sometimes had, we are now not just singing from the same hymn sheet, but point counterpointing one another like two old songbirds exploring the exact same themes in modestly shifted modalities.
Elphaba and Glinda would be my preference. Other divas are available on request.
