![]() But the propping up and even a kind of religiosity and adoration that has arisen needs to stop now. The tweet praises, the artwork dedicated to them – it needs to stop. Whatever struggles these people have or are experiencing, they of course have the right to how they have dealt – and still do – deal with it. Which means we’re right back to a basic belief in gender stereotypes as a valid system for understanding what it means to be male or female. They fulfil stereotypical ideas of what men and women should really be, so that we end up buying that they’re the real thing: ‘true’ ‘trans’-presumably as opposed to those AGP fetishists, non-passing fakes, predators, narcissists and confused teenagers who aren’t the real thing. And when you scratch the surface, it becomes clear that these particular folks are viewed as ‘good’ for reasons that corrode our credibility out of existence. The minute we do this, we have implicitly bought the legal fiction that is “tran”’ at all. ![]() We have to remember that these individuals are merely thinking and feeling that they need to medicalize themselves and more dangerously for all of us, that they believe that there are also “trans” children under 18 who may actually be better off being given puberty blockers and medicalised in order to find peace with themselves. That’s great, but as gender-critical women, we cannot be in the business of sorting “trans” people into “good trans” and “bad trans” or aligning ourselves in a serious way with allies who themselves are walking, talking contradictions to what we claim to be analysing under a critical lens. ![]() They’re concerned about women’s and girls’ rights. For example, all are prominent individuals who claim ‘trans’ as their identities, but all are, to some extent, gender-critical themselves – that is, they acknowledge that they have not actually changed sex. These four share some characteristics that make them ‘good trans’ and allies to some important gender critical activists. And, they have the potential to be just as apocalyptic. Our horsemen don’t sound nearly as bad as those biblical dudes, but like those four horsemen of the Bible, these four have come to represent familiar reminders of popular cultural role models that most of us in the western world understand and even feel comforted by. Something similar is happening in the gender critical community right now with an internal rift that could bring an end to our credibility and effectiveness. In the Bible, the world ends when the first four of seven seals open and four horsemen ride out with the creepy monikers of Pestilence, Famine. Bending principles for the sake of gender critical trans allies risks splitting the movement and undermining the message.
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