Nevermind that Contrapoints originally started becoming hated because she couldn't keep her mouth shut about nonbinary folk (and non-passing binary trans people)... plus the whole Buck Angel thing.
But I dunno maybe outing a trans woman against her consent is fine as long as you don't criticize her while doing it.
The thing that initially started backlash against her started when she put out a thread complaining about people asking for pronouns and how it made things harder and more awkward for her as a "semi-passable trans". It wasn't that offensive, but people pointed out how asking for pronouns is good because it accommodates non-passing binary trans people and nonbinary trans people and she was... not the most receptive. There's a lot to be said on the subject, but the TL;DR is that a lot of binary trans people look at the mechanism of misgendering (e.g. assuming gender) and see it as something to spin in their favor (once they pass well enough) to validate themselves as really being men / women.
"I'm sure this is not the experience of many NBs. I leave it to them to articulate what NB existence looks like in a binary world. I do not and cannot speak for them. But surely an account that begins and ends with "I'm not a man because I don't identify as one" is pretty weak."
She seems to be agreeing with what appears to be a transmed here (this was in response to a thread where she talked about '20 something boy moding trans women who will go up to you and tell you they use she/her pronouns' and the generational gap between her and younger trans people)
Anyway, she continued to double down on that instead of apologizing, at one point going on a rant about how she's "the last of the old school transsexuals" (whatever that means), and at another point expressing sympathy with people who are worried about the future of trans acceptance due to more radical / non-conforming members of the community. As the other person mentioned, there was also the whole thing with her platforming Buck Angel, a very bigoted trans man who is a transmed and outed Lily Wachowski without her consent. She eventually deleted her Twitter and went on a sort of "I've been cancelled" pity tour, making a video about how unjustly harassed she's been in which, for whatever fucking reason, she compares herself to JK Rowling and seems to argue that even if Rowling was a shitty person, the harassment she received wasn't necessarily justified (?). She also compared leftists & trans folk who criticized her to Kiwifarms trolls. In one of her videos, she also was really unnecessarily shitty towards that one Gamestop trans woman that had a video of her circulating a few years back.
She later returned to Twitter, having clearly learned nothing, and continued making insensitive, catty remarks about niche groups within the queer community - e.g. bi lesbians, asexual folk who have sex, etc - and generally proving that she had learned nothing.
Like, it's not like she's JK Rowling (although it took a long while for even JK Rowling to become JK Rowling) - she's not going on crusades against nonbinary people - but she's a privileged, white binary trans woman who is consistently insensitive towards other members of the community and instead of apologizing, doubles down in response to backlash and tries to paint herself as a victim of the ever ubiquitous cancel culture.
Genuinely. They're so fucking wretched.
"I don't care what the Houthis have on their flag as long as Israel suffers monetarily for siccing rockets on civilians. I don't care what Hamas have on their flag as long as doctors under their govt treat maimed civilians. If it's unproductive to blast Dems for supporting Israel, what on Earth gives lefties the moral high ground to blast what little resistance Gazans have to do anything about their genocide?"
Very good point from someone in the replies.
As I understand it, the issue is that the original study was deducting the number of people in the three main population centers (as estimated by the IDF) from the pre-genocide population, and that number was meant to guess at the number of unaccounted for Palestinians who might have trouble reaching """"""aid centers""".
That said, it would not surprise me if the actual number of people murdered is close to 377,000 or even higher; but that specific number seems to be suspect.
Yeah, last I heard the number of Palestinians murdered since October 7th was 377k, which based on the pre-genocide population of 2.3 million (IIRC) would be closer to 16 or 17 percent of the population.
Edit: Actually, went to look this up and it seems that the 377000 statistic was based on a misinterpretation of a study, and doesn't appear to be an accurate estimate. Will leave this up because it was widely circulated & others have probably made the same mistake.
Being a binary trans person does not mean that you 'only believe in two genders', it means that you personally identify with one of the two binary genders. A binary trans woman is not a TERF, she is a trans person who identifies with womanhood and is comfortable with that role. But ultimately nonbinary people and binary trans people have more in common than they have apart, because we are all subverting the established gender binary, whether it's to traverse from one side to the other or to break out entirely. (And, as I said in my previous post, "nonbinary" and "trans" are not two distinct things - nonbinary people are included under the trans umbrella by default, and plenty of nonbinary people physically transition. I myself started out identifying as a binary trans person and then felt less like I needed to conform to the gender binary as my dysphoria diminished.)
There is some friction between binary trans people and nonbinary (trans) people, but IMO it is no different than some cis gays being biphobic towards cis bisexuals.
As a nonbinary trans person, I'm going to have to disagree with pretty much this entire post.
First off, yes, TERFs do conflate sex and gender. They view gender when expressed as distinct from sex as something to be abolished - but that does not equate to them actually being critical of the idea of gender. TERFs believe in a world where AMAB people are men and AFAB people are women. (And intersex people get to be whatever their doctors / parents want at that particular moment.) That's why TERFS are fine with trans mascs & butch cis women (among others) being kicked out from women's restrooms - it has never been about sex. Any form of gender non-conformity is the enemy. "Sex-based differences" is a smokescreen for what TERFs actually want to do, which is return to an era where there was no difference between gender and sex.
The nonbinary and trans communities are not two distinct things. They can, and very frequently do, overlap. TERFs are fundamentally not NB friendly because they view all forms of non-conformity to one's assigned gender as indicative of mental illness. They may humor nonbinary folk who are fine with being treated as woman-lite / man-lite, but it is only to weaponize them against the trans & nonbinary people they hate even more.
Tbh I'm the worst person to ask about that because I've never been really in touch with my body emotionally - I was just taking it for breast growth.
The time has come for a second prostate solution
I used to take it before bed for that reason. But also, that only happened to me when I took it orally - something to do with the progesterone being metabolized into something else, IIRC. Could be worth looking at rectal administration or a cream.
Yeah, I feel you. It was Bernie for me. Kill your heroes.