I’ve been working on a post about “brain sex” to clear up some of the misinformation going around about a “classic transsexual” viewpoint on the subject since it gets attacked so often. In the meantime I wanted to point out something that is going on lately that I find troubling.
Recently, there has been a rash of sites and postings from people who claim to support “autogynephilia” as a legitimate diagnosis. Soon after the discussion about how helpful and wonderful this diagnosis is, the writers of these blogs for some reason found it necessary to launch directly into attacks on the physiological basis of transsexuality, the standard TG narrative of gender identity, and basically everything anyone has said that contradicts the AGP/HSTS paradigm.
Let the ‘record’ show that we took no notice of these people until their linkage to our blogs was pointed out, and indeed I personally tried to engage them in productive conversation. They were simply not interested and instead quickly retreated and continued their campaign to discredit anyone and everyone involved in this debate. This is when I started to get suspicious.
I believe this is a coordinated effort, the purpose of which is unclear to me at this time. This sudden spate of “autogynephilic” activity followed by a very pointed effort to damn the physiological basis of transsexualism as well as any TG who does not toe their line is more than fortuitous. I’m sure anyone who takes an interest in these matters will probably know who I mean when I say it is most likely “the usual suspects”. I would urge people, no matter what side you are on, to approach these “autogynephilics” with caution if you must do so at all. There is something really wrong there.
In other news, Anonymous T Girl has completed a report on the incident which occurred on my blog when certain parties decided to do the usual tg-activist thing of trying to silence us by “outing”, never mind that many of the people who comment here are “out” which is why their pictures were readily available. The comments here on my blog were fairly bad with all the usual silly sock puppetry and arguments with oneself, but nothing out of the ordinary for the hardcore TG types that typically troll the waters.
The real issue came about with the creation of an attack blog where they tried to profile some of the people who post here to shame and humiliate them into silence using the all-too-typical internet tg “activist” method of bullying and threats. It ended up with some of the worst hate speech against women and intersex people that I have heard from the TG in a long time.
I don’t point this out to start yet another front in this ongoing war between TS and TG, but to get them to remove at least the offending parts of the blogs. While I really dislike targeting any particular individual, the content of these other blogs was so bad it had to be called out.
They took a picture from the website of a person who was not “out” in a meaningful way and put it on their attack blog. When asked to remove the picture because the individual felt that it put her in danger (she had removed it previously when realizing her error), there was no response on several occasions.
No matter how angry someone gets, it is not acceptable to knowingly put a person in danger. And it can never be the case that judging a woman by her “rapeability” is an acceptable joke, or that people are referred to as monsters for their genetics. This is the kind of misogyny and abuse that transsexual women have had to endure at the hands of the TG for many years now.
This is why we fight this war.
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