This is a comment that I deleted, by someone using the nym “Leum” who won’t be commenting here again.
I find it quite staggering.
And this time this stuff is coming from supposed allies. Progressives. People of the left.
This is what the people whipping up the hatred of me are fomenting:
Leum @58
Do you think Ophelia is not physically safe for a trans woman to be around?
Full disclosure: I am a cis male. I have the same reservations as Ophelia about a “yes” answer. I have spent some time in the company of a trans woman and felt no desire to attack her, physically or emotionally.
Since I’m a) not a trans woman and b) have not been able to follow how everything that’s been said by everyone in this discussion, I don’t really feel comfortable answering that question beyond saying that as an amab nonbinary person I would have no problem with, say, eating dinner with Ophelia. It’s also important to recognize that physical safety means more than “this person won’t directly attack me.” There are indirect forms of attack, primarily political in nature, that were actually initiated by cis feminists (a lot of the requirements for medical transition were first promulgated by cis radical feminists).
To my knowledge, Ophelia doesn’t support political violence against trans women, but since literally everyone in a transmisogynist society (including trans women) will manifest transmisogyny at times, it wouldn’t surprise me if she unknowingly supported (or failed to oppose) some policy that physically harms trans women.
In other words, yes, Leum does think I’m dangerous to trans women.