A bubbling river of rage
Honestly, of all the times for a power outage to force me to take a day off, did it really have to be the day when everyone was talking about the Cass review? How can I possibly catch up?
I can’t, so I’ll just go with what I find amusing or absurd or both.
Like a pronouns fool getting told she’s a pronouns fool.
“I’m not a single woman though, I’m a very special non-binary trans person.”
Well, to catch up:
Owen Jones is having a mantrum over the Cass Report:
The Cass review claims that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls partly because of “prenatal and postnatal hormonal influence”.
I will definitely take a review which offers that kind of claim seriously, if I ever start taking crack.
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1778184206696521809#m
And the Mighty Wurlitzer of TRAs has already begun the denigration of Dr. Hilary Cass. Here’s Alejandra Caraballo :
The first account that shows up that Hilary Cass follows is “Transgender Trend,” a notoriously anti-trans hate group. This is who was supposed to be unbiased on a review that affects the care of trans people in the UK?
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1778171426169606493#m
Poor Dr. Cass is going to replace J. K. Rowling and Dave Chappelle as the TRAs’ Enemy Number One.
“A notoriously anti-trans hate group”
…Taking their claims at face value, as written, this states the notoriety stems not from being a hate group, but from being an anti-trans hate group. Even though I think this is simply the product of poor writing, it fits.
Anyway. Nice trick they have going – disagreement with their demands is hatred, therefore every organisation that disagrees with them is a hate group. As a method of debate, this is not meaningfully different from sticking fingers in ears and shouting “I can’t hear you!”
It’s a dirty trick, of course. Remember when Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page) whined:
To the political leaders who work to criminalize trans health care and deny our right to exist and to all of those with a massive platform who continue to spew hostility towards the trans community: you have blood on your hands.
https://www.facebook.com/TheElliotPage/posts/10158082664172449
I’ve always felt Page was extraordinarily naïve, which probably explains why he went along with this – Page wanted to help “trans kids” and be a good role model. Hence the double mastectomy.
I had to listen to verify, and yes, she actually says “I’m a very special, non-binary, trans person”, in those words. Suffering succotash.
I see that Cass is being criticized for which accounts she follows on Twitter. Because people only follow accounts they agree with. I mean, Transgender Trend is an excellent organization, but I would expect they are followed by people of many different opinions, to see what they have to say, to learn, or to dispute. But of course we know that TRAs have been going after people for Twitter likes and follows for years; you must avoid all impure thoughts, y’know.
To be fair, the woman claiming to be non-binary appeared to be sarcastically quoting Hartley-Brewer’s earlier description of “people who like all these labels being special” — so we can put air quotes on her saying she was “special.” She doesn’t think she thinks she’s special.
Of course, the whole Not Like Other Girls and No Man or Woman Would Feel Like Me mindset is extra-special-specialness.
How is it that someone can be both “trans” and “nonbinary” at the same time? Being the other sex, while being neither sex*? That’s some trick.
* Yes, I know that some would castigate me for confusing “gender idenity” with “sex,” but if the latter had nothing to do with the latter, then genderists and their minions wouldn’t be claiming that putative “gender identities” gave men-claiming-to-be-women the right to access single sex, female-only spaces and facilities, nor would they be trying to redefine homosexuality as same gender attraction instead of same sex attraction. If it were only their precious “identities” nobody would give a fuck, but since they’re insisting on using them as a passport to intrude into places where they don’t belong, some clarification and demarcation on their part are in order.
“I’ve got to have some of your attention. Give it to me!”. She’s very special, all right.