And just to round out the previous thoughts, it’s rude and unnecessary to trawl after trans people and tell them “you are a man, you look like a dude.” I don’t do that and I don’t like it when others behave this way. But it’s not qualitatively, morally or intellectually different from people who told me on one of my videos that I have Yeti hair. Yes, I do have Yeti hair. And yes, somebody like Brianna Wu is absolutely a man. But it’s rude to say that to a person. Both things are equally rude and unnecessary. They are not, however, “phobic” and they shouldn’t merit any form of persecution.
If we could have all agreed on this reasonable, moderate view a long time ago, wouldn’t that be great? Now, I’m afraid, it’s too late because any person on the right thinks, “whenever I give an inch, you immediately demand a mile, so I won’t give the inch because that will make things worse for me.” And it’s true. It’s as if we agreed not to tell me I have Yeti hair to my face, and then I immediately demanded that anybody who doesn’t loudly proclaim I’m the world’s greatest beauty should be hounded and incarcerated.
Brianna Wu, by the way, says exactly this, begging trans people to stop overplaying their hand because they’ve made everything worse for quiet, reasonable trans people who only want to be left in peace.
