The costs of trans visibility
Yesterday, Dylan Mulvaney broke her silence: https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanmulvaney/vi....
For context, this is a trans influencer who built a 10 million strong following on TikTok. She took a brand deal with budweiser to post an ad on an instagram, and the anti-trans right went absolutely ballistic, calling for a boycott, condemning the company, and to some perhaps unknowable degree it influenced that Budweiser sales dropped by a 1/4 and
. Dylan speaks more personally about the effect of the hatred on her.
What strikes me about this story is that it is just about visibility. This isn't inclusion in sports or gender-affirming care for minors, it was just that a trans person was visible. This wasn't even visibility in a TV commerical that a poor right-winger is forced to see, it was an ad on her own instagram page. We're all in our own social media algorithm influenced bubbles, but from my vantage point it really has seemed that in the last year or so things have just gotten worse for trans people and the backlash to even minor visibility is growing.
We need to do better.
Does this free tuition somehow morph to you being a payor and, therefore, you have the right have input into who plays American college sports?
It's a moral consideration, same as you can comment on, say, Alberta banning puberty blockers for gender disphoric minors negatively if you think it's a mistake even if you aren't a resident in Alberta
Far out
I had a good moment today.
Sometimes this thread is pretty dehumanizing, all of these people raging against this or that part of being trans. It sometimes sucks you in. But real humans are sure one hell of an antidote. I was speaking privately with a student of mine today, and had forgotten their name so asked it. The student got a bit emotional and then with a lot of hesitation and vulnerability shared that while most people know them by o
Very cool, bro.
Keep collecting those moments
So common sense and science is the default until it challenges your world view, in which case the arbiter of common sense declares ‘experts’ as phonies pushing a ‘fad’. Because being trans is the hot new thing these phonies are pushing billions of children into so they can all dominate sports teams you thing they don’t belong on?
These worldviews don’t even matter. They just matter to you as a talking point because one trans athlete dominat
Wait so it's true that you get prescribed drugs with permanent horrendous effects with diagnosis entirely based on your own words with no objectivity and external verification...
this one is a doozy
That's all BS though. The day of trans visibility goes back to 2009 and Biden declared it something 2 years ago and it's always on March 31st, but Easter moves around. Biden first mentioned it on a Thursday and it was first created on a Tuesday. And, you know, Easter is always on Sunday.
Really, how can the story about it being Easter be a thing? How did it being a thing last more than 5 minutes?
Holy ****, Dance Marathon Day and Crayola Crayon Day were on Easter. Will they show some ****ing respect! Jesus Christ, it's also National Tater Day!
Why is "trans visibility" even a thing?
Hope you didn't forget this one. Easter was also World Backup Day. Don't lose your data!
March 31st is also Anesthesia Tech Day. Why is that even a thing!!!!!!! I'm so furious!!!!!!
How does Caitlyn post this without looking it up? How does she not delete it when she finds out (she surely has) that there's no Easter connection at all? I sure hope the people here are smart and honest enough to be done pretending it's news.
Happy belated second birthday to our boy Jesus!
Grrr, I am so pissed off that it's national sour dough bread day today!
That one gets a pass. Like the Beatles, sourdough bread is bigger than Jesus.
HAIDT: Yes. Because it happens in clusters of girls. It happens in clusters of girls who had no previous gender dysphoria when they were young. So it’s very different from the kinds of gender dysphoria cases that we’ve known about for decades. I mean, it is a real thing. But what happened, especially when girls got, was YouTube and Instagram early, but then especially TikTok, girls just, you know, girls get sucked into these vortices and they take on each other’s purported mental illnesses.
i assume this guy isn't an expert, despite holding the same degrees as the left's experts, right?
i assume this guy isn't an expert, despite holding the same degrees as the left's experts, right?
more degrees, bestselling books that changed the discourse among the intellectual elite and so on.
but it never mattered in the slightest, the left only uses credentialism when it can gain from it.
