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Evan Urquhart, founder of Assigned Media, has recently published the “Trans Data Library,” a list of people and organizations she considers to be dissidents to trans orthodoxy. This database, which went live on Wednesday morning, has now been featured in the popular LGBTQ+ news source, The Advocate.
Ah yes, Evan Urquhart. She did a hit piece on me in Slate back in 2015, based on a dishonest manipulative “interview.”
Evan is a woman who claims the identity of a “transman,” and together with two men who claim to be “transwomen,” she started a fundraiser in order to create a propaganda campaign to silence reasonable dissent. They raised over $12,500 with a goal of $20,000 to support their project which provides detailed bios of all those they consider to be disrupting the trans narrative.
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Urquhart has curated Assigned Media and the Trans Data Library using carefully crafted manipulative language.
Now there’s a surprise! See above. I called her manipulative before I got to that sentence.
It is deeply concerning when lists start being collated and disseminated that are used to target and discredit. The biggest tactic of the entire trans agenda is to silence dissent. Authors on this list such as Abigail Shrier have had their books pulled off of Target’s shelves, organizations such as Partners for Ethical Care have had their private speaking venues shut down, activists such as myself and others have been drowned out with noise and attacked in public for attempting to hold public press conferences about this issue. This list is just one more silencing tactic.
Where’s that megaphone?
If they’re looking for culprits guilty of “disrupting” the trans “narrative,” then they need look no further than trans activism itself, which is a disjointed hodgepodge of contradictory, unevidenced claims. For each and every claim of gender ideology, there is an equal and opposite claim that contradicts it. Find an appropriate pair of trans statements and most of the work is already done for you. It’s an extension of the principle that the best weapon you can use against trans activism is to quote trans activists.
Of course this list isn’t simply a resource to be used against opponents of genderism, but also a warning to potential doubters, backsliders and apostates. “DON’T PISS US OFF OR WE’LL PUT YOU ON THIS LIST!” The criteria for orthodoxy are not clear (given the lack of consistency and coherence, how could they be?), and subject to change. Yesterday’s hero can become today’s pariah at the posting of a tweet (c.f. Peter Tatchell). Reeducation, recantation, and remorse however heartfelt, will never remove the taint of Error.
A movement that had confidence in the truthfulness of its arguments and the justice of its cause wouldn’t need to hold such a threat over its allies and supporters; it would not have to bully, mob, and silence its critics from speaking out. It would relish each and every opportunity to argue and debate the merits of its case against all comers, attempting to win those critics and opponents to their side through reasoned discussion and exchange of ideas. It wouldn’t need to use threats and intimidation to shut down their opponents; it could use the truth. But that would take work. In such a tangled, contradictory mass of impossible bullshit, truth is going to be awfully hard to come by. So much easier to shout down dissent and vilify opponents. It takes no thought to scream.
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“Hot damn! I never realized I could make money off compiling my Enemies List!” — Richard M. Nixon
Ah yes, I remember that. I was briefly FB friends with her because I thought her comic strip drawn from the perspective of a lesbian trying to navigate the world was really very amusing. I defriended her when she “transitioned” and started talking about how she couldn’t wait to have bottom surgery and gain “an ENORMOUS giant cock!”
I wonder if she’s still married. As I recall, her wife was extremely unhappy with the whole transitioning business.
Anyone else think Urquhart’s project reminds them of *this*?
I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless, are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191866692.001.0001/q-oro-ed6-00006909
Seem to recall Andrea whats-his-face doing a similar project entitled “Transgender Maps” or some such on Kickstarter. Was supposed to be some sort of advanced app but all it was was standard HTML with Der Sturmer cartoons of Jesse Singal…