Pete Meehan
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@jk_rowling @ZacharyDColeman @ImWatson91 What are you talking about? How do you still not get it?. We are against the misgendering of anyone, including convicted criminals, not because we “value the feelings of rapists over their victims”, but because that’s how human rights work. They are by definition unconditional.
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@Matthew_Hodson That’s interesting. I’d always enjoyed what seemed to me almost an innocent childlike joy, in objectification that is so unashamedly and theatrically brazen, that it somehow feels less like *actual* objectification and more like a comically absurdist running joke.
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@jk_rowling In case anyone else wondered what these “safeguarding concerns” were, they were just that Monroe had posed for Playboy several years ago, so— contrary to Rowling’s insinuation—nothing to suggest that she might pose any risk to children.
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Congrats on hitting 2k subs @DaftLimmy. In honour of your burgeoning career as a professional streamer, and status as a true aficionado of retro gaming who's been there from Day One, I wrote this using an emulation of the soundchip in the Nintendo NES:.
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@j_aches @MNateShyamalan They see a non-white person and can’t help immediately hearing the sound of police radio chatter in their heads.
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@jk_rowling @BluskyeAllison I can’t even imagine the series of logical leaps required to believe that acceptance of trans people is an existential threat to same-sex attraction.
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With you now all but completely retired from making TV @DaftLimmy, I was thinking my 8bit cover of the Limmy's Show theme might be rapidly sliding into irrelevance. Here's an update:.
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@jk_rowling @ZacharyDColeman @ImWatson91 I know you don’t believe that trans women are women, so I presume you typically use the preferred pronouns of trans people you meet as a polite courtesy rather than genuine acceptance, but is it really so hard to see it from our point of view?.
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@ejrosetta @_celia_bedelia_ This is pointless if your definition of transphobia is so narrow that you wouldn’t accept the legitimacy of any given examples. What is an example of something you *would* consider transphobic?.
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@RubinReport @CathyYoung63 You're having a full-blown Trumpian tantrum over very gentle criticism. If this was a "hit piece", what would you even imagine reasonable criticism of you to look like?.
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@ThomasWillett9 JK Rowling before legalisation of gay marriage: “What rights do gay people not have? You have the right to a heterosexual marriage just like the rest of us!”.
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@CowboyBravo_ @jakebrodes The thought of the full minute or two it would have taken to create and carefully tweak that arrangement of notes. I would pay to watch the footage.
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@jk_rowling @ZacharyDColeman @ImWatson91 That is, we do not believe respect for gender identity is merely a courtesy or privilege that can be revoked whenever we feel it is not deserved, but believe it to be part of the basic human right to dignity. And as with all human rights, it applies no matter who they are.
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@imbethmccoll Man, the replies to the original tweet. A seething frothing mass of hyperfragile male egos crying out as one: “Noooo we EVOLVED to exclusively seek out females at peak breeding age! The touch of a female of similar age and status would surely see us shrivel and die!”.
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U Toronto prof a Biological Sex Denier on Canadian public TV with me:
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@VVOKOOLSKI @jeeminahh @xxxsapphicdoll @Liv_Agar @TabithaPickles_ Yeah it’s almost as if it’s not actually about that at all! 🎯🤣.
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@KatyMontgomerie I truly believe almost all those saying things like "Please point to a single transphobic thing [this person] has said" could be shown the person saying "Trans ppl are abominations and should be sterilised", and they'd still reply with "It's not transphobic to state the truth.".
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@jk_rowling It’s very easy to believe an issue is simple if you make a point of stripping away all nuance. I’m not saying that there aren’t people saying what you quote, but why pretend that there aren’t *also* plenty of trans people trying to explain that it *is* more complex than that.
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@fujomod3r I just love how Americans call anything that involves walking outside amidst leaves and stones n shit a “hike”.
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@ejrosetta It’s very easy to claim someone has never said or done anything to suggest they’re transphobic if your definition of “transphobia” doesn’t include things everyone else recognises as transphobic, such as implicit rejections of the legitimacy of trans people’s gender identities.
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@KDansky @billybragg @dailytelegraph That this has so many likes reveals how widespread this fundamental misunderstanding still seems to be — conflating inclusive language like “people who menstruate” or “birthing people”with the idea that it’s in some way considered politically incorrect to refer to women as women.
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@DeepWoodsDeb @RajanBarot24 @jk_rowling If someone (a colleague at work, say) were to deliberately and repeatedly refer to you or another “real woman” as “sir”, to the point that it became distressing, and persisted even after being asked to stop, then this would absolutely count as harassment.
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@jk_rowling @ZacharyDColeman @ImWatson91 So it’s incredibly misguided to characterise those who object to the misgendering of criminals as being “pro rapist”. It’s nothing to do with protecting the “feelings” of the criminal, and everything to do with the message it sends to wider society: Some people are less human.
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@KatyMontgomerie I hate to dignify their nonsense by even bothering to point this out, but I mean…
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@billybragg That this extremely obvious point was so widely missed is, I think, the most conclusive evidence yet that there is no level of self-delusion that these people won't resort to in order to avoid the cognitive dissonance associated with critical thinking and self reflection.
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@sabriprovenzani @MinnOrchia @stephenwhittle @JarrBelle @UktraCC @DianaVilliers1 @Kimberfan76 @MrMennoTweets @jk_rowling @BuckAngel @bydarrenstyles Many who voiced narrow-scope concerns over “Self ID” GRC reforms have since pivoted from saying “It’s not genuine trans women we’re concerned about but bad-faith actors taking advantage” to outright public misgendering of innocent trans women with long-held GRCs.
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@jk_rowling It’s true that I wasn’t aware of her having encouraged young people to DM her. To be fair, the Wikipedia entry I linked to doesn’t mention this, but still, I shouldn’t have been so quick to presume I knew the full story after a cursory skim of a Wiki page. 2/6.
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@ScottJohn08 @KatyMontgomerie Ah sorry, I forgot people like yourself are physically incapable of resisting the urge to move the goalposts. I'll be more mindful next time.
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@MiRaebel @jk_rowling No one is defining women as “non-men”. Non-men = women + non-binary people. I know never to underestimate the ability of those who are determined to find something to be upset about, but I’m still surprised that it’s apparently controversial to consider that women are not men.
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@KatyMontgomerie @jk_rowling @Esqueer_ You can really tell that someone is willing to have an honest conversation about trans people when they can’t bring themselves to refer to them as trans people.
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@inquisitrix @s_pace39 @mollytaft Do you react similarly when someone refers to you as “my friend”?.
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@jk_rowling @stephenwhittle @BuckAngel @bydarrenstyles “Taken women’s jobs” is such a reach considering people like Mridul Wadhwa were chosen by other women.
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@Blipbloolblip @terfipedia I like how it suggests that in private they call trans people “trans people” like everyone else, with the whole “trans-identified person” thing just being a weird semantic non-compliance ritual they’re expected to perform in public.
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@ConceptualJames You are misinterpreting Roth as simply saying “kids should have access to Grindr”. He’s saying since it is *unavoidable* that some number people under 18 will continue to access these services, the services have a duty to take steps to keep them as safe as possible.
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@jk_rowling Women who Ian has called spiteful:.-Kemi Badenoch. Men who Ian has called spiteful:.- Rishi Sunak.- Boris Johnson.- Darren Grimes.- Pete North (Leave Alliance)
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@Hairika @fujomod3r Sorry I actually didn’t mean it to come across as sarky, but reading it back I can see how it does!. It just sounds funny cos of our typically using “hike” to refer to walks that are somewhat challenging and off the beaten path, rather than what we’d call “a stroll in the woods”.
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@KatyMontgomerie @jk_rowling At this point, “ignoring all reasonable criticism and launching an extended attack on a cherrypicked instance of an individual who may have said something unreasonable” is such a well-worn deflection tactic of hers that we may as well start referring to it as “Doing a Rowling.”.
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@jk_rowling Genuine question: what’s behind your decision to refer to Wadhwa as “he”? You clearly consider use of preferred pronouns to be a privilege rather than a right—a conditional courtesy afforded to those you think are deserving—so at what point is this revoked for people like Wadhwa?.
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@jk_rowling @darewecan The only lie here is the pretence that you ever gave a shit about trans people, if you think being involved in a minor scuffle is enough to immediately disqualify someone as a trans woman so that they must from now on be referred to as a “trans-identifying male”.
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@jameskirkup Putting aside the incredible disingenuity of implying that trans people or supporters don’t ever receive death threats themselves, is it really your argument that “unacceptable behaviour from a very small minority is proof that a complicated issue is actually very simple”?.
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@classiclib3ral What is it with these people and the talking in memes. "Muh". "teh hard". Christ.
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@CLouvres @alicemydaughter @jowendes @jk_rowling Please read this again, and try to summon some basic human compassion.
@jk_rowling I’ve not met Lucy but my husband knows her wife. Lucy is a real person with a family, and a life to live. Bills to pay. What harm does her role as a football manager cause you? . The team love her. Her wife and child love her. Your decision to pile on her is simply cruel.
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@jk_rowling @PollyGHHC @BluskyeAllison You needn’t presume I’m unaware of the “evidence”. I’m fully aware of the “cotton ceiling” story, thanks. You and everyone who propagates it simply misinterpreted what people meant, and you refuse to consider any and all clarifications people have since tried to offer you.
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@JeannaHoch @KatyMontgomerie @macfluffers The only possible explanation for your weirdo husband's bizarre overreaction is that he finds her so attractive, that by the time you'd told him, he'd already fantasised about having sex with her. I'm not sure why you'd want to share this.
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@jk_rowling Firstly, thank you to those who were able let me know some more details of this story without also feeling the need to imply that I’m a sex offender. 1/6.
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@SmokedLenses @steinkobbe @SilvermanJacob Let’s say for the sake of argument he hadn’t… I still can’t figure out what your point could be.
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@MrsNickyClark @bbcnickrobinson Hi Nicky. I presume you’re aware of the policies around medical consent for children and under-16s (ie. Gillick Competence and the Fraser Guidelines). For over-16s though, the situation is far more straight-forward, as they are considered to have full capacity like all adults.
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@sadXcomrade @BenjaminPDixon Thank you so much for posting this, I was fully ready to just choose to believe you so that my day wouldn’t be ruined.
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@jk_rowling @BluskyeAllison I didn’t claim to understand any such thing. But if one of those “key facts” is the theory that the concept of same-sex attraction is supposedly under attack, then I thought I was quite clear that I *don’t* understand it.
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@adamgreeney @KatyMontgomerie Yep. While I used to take great pains to give the benefit of the doubt, and presume good faith in their insistence that they were "just raising concerns" or "just asking questions", we are now LONG past the point when every concern had been addressed and every question answered.
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@jk_rowling If that were the case, then it would follow that you believe all NHS trusts and breastfeeding specialists and charities around the world who have supported trans women in their efforts to breastfeed are all direct accomplices to paedophilia/child abuse. Do you? 4/4.
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@JeannaHoch @KatyMontgomerie @macfluffers Speaking as a fellow hetersexual man, I regret to inform you he's lying to you.
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@jk_rowling I'd have thought the knives were just a reference to the "weaponization". A bit on the nose maybe, but I wouldn't have thought a lack of subtlety should be an issue for a writer whose names for the "foreign" magic schools are just Google Translations of the words "magic place".
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@KDansky @billybragg @dailytelegraph Guys, literally no “trans activists” have EVER made the argument that one shouldn’t refer to women as women, or mums as mums, etc.
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@JoelMCurzon @mattnightingale “Not another old white guy”.“Typical annoying white girl”.“Shit straight people say”. So by your logic (a word is a slur if it is ever used pejoratively), the words “old”, “white” and “straight” are slurs.
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@JeannaHoch @KatyMontgomerie @macfluffers So don't take it personally – it's not just you he's lying to. As he still finds her just as attractive as he did before, only now he's having to tell himself he doesn't.
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@redlianak Am I missing something or is Rowling somehow oblivious that, by her line of logic, men shouldn’t be allowed to be teachers, doctors, social workers etc?.
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@JeannaHoch @KatyMontgomerie @macfluffers That his disgust was merely "moral disgust" at the trickery, and not resulting from the existential cognitive dissonance of finding her sexually attractive while also believing that straight men can't be attracted to trans women.
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@Rob_ThaBuilder “The proof that JKR isn’t transphobic is that I, a transphobe, agree with everything she’s said.”.
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@MartinKulldorff @GovRonDeSantis @DrJBhattacharya @TracyBethHoeg @StabellBenn @BretWeinstein @stemplet74 @JosephFraiman If a motivation for this is the alleged echo chamber nature of the CDC, since all the scientists mentioned are part of a small minority of voices that oppose the global scientific consensus, what will be done to mitigate the risk of this simply being an echo chamber of its own?.
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@jk_rowling @Sochli1987 @Stopphoningme @helenstaniland You can’t expect people to believe you’re arguing in good faith when:.a) You can’t bring yourself to avoid using terms that you must know no trans person (or supporter of trans people) would use.b) You likely know full well that “Trans-identified” doesn’t even make semantic sense.
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@jk_rowling It's hard to know how to respond in good faith (or to know whether it's even worth trying) when you insist on characterising those trans mothers—with similar maternal instincts to "regular" mothers—as "men who really want their nipples sucked". 1/4.
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@Simon_ster @Blipbloolblip @terfipedia I’m referring to when they call them “trans-identified” rather than simply “trans”.
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@jk_rowling Perhaps because I don't like to see innocent people demonised in the way you've been doing for 2 days and counting. If your argument were truly legitimate then you wouldn't need to rely entirely on dressing it up in sensationalist provocative language. And I think you know that.
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@helenstaniland @RozKaveney Do you not recognise that there’s a meaningful difference between “I believe it should be considered acceptable for trans women like myself to use female toilets” and “I believe anyone, including any and all males, should be able to use female toilets”?.
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@neocon53 @DoobLontonder @tomcoates @elonmusk @elizableu You are misinterpreting it as saying they simply *should* be given access. What Roth was saying was, whether we like it or not, they *will* get access, and these services therefore have a moral responsibility to take that into account.
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@TMalotes @jordanbpeterson Given how often Dr Peterson rails against the lax academic standards of the humanities, I'm sure the relaxation of his own standards here is just a coincidence and nothing to do with it serving to bolster his preconceptions, which wouldn't be very scientific. .
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@lallafa_jeltz @KatyMontgomerie Considering how many of those who are up in arms over trans-inclusive language like “birthing parents” also just assume it’s for the benefit of trans women, and splutter about the impossibility of “biological men” getting pregnant, I genuinely think they forget trans men exist.
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@Rabadash2 @CirceLover @Yascha_Mounk Imagine being the kind of person who unselfconsciously accuses people of "sophistry" at the same time as insisting how unfair it is to suggest that someone has "called for prosecution modeled on the Nuremberg Trials", based merely on their saying "Nuremberg 2 is fully warranted".
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@ejrosetta Of which there are plenty of examples. Not least her taking issue with trans-inclusive language like “people who menstruate”. Her mockery of which was premised on the presumption that it is *only* women who menstruate. How is this not a rejection of the validity of trans men?.
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@MrsNickyClark @bbcnickrobinson So the question you refer to is fundamentally flawed — it should instead be “why *shouldn’t* they?”. In other words, the burden of proof is on those would wish to make gender affirming treatment an *exception* in the medical consent guidelines.
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@jk_rowling @Bearlissimo1 Why are you so committed to refusing to consider that you might be mistaken to characterise it as “drug-riddled discharge”?.
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@Hairika @fujomod3r (And btw I’d never suggest that you guys change, it’s just one of those cute mildly amusing wee differences in language/usage!).
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@KatyMontgomerie I don’t know what’s worse. That she:.a) Didn’t already know this.b) Has never thought to do even some cursory research about sex ed despite her apparent strong opinions about it.c) Would be so sure of her own uninformed intuition that she would mock the person informing her.
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@batcountry101 @drvolts fwiw your profile photo really cheered me up for at least a few min tho ☺️🥰.
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@Melissa54579618 @NickBuckleyMBE @KatyMontgomerie It’s salient alright, in that it demonstrates that your unthinking anti-trans crusade necessarily involves forcing women who you’re not even able to tell are trans to use men’s spaces.
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@TarkNado @RichardSuplee @theserfstv Gays Against Groomers are bigoted imbeciles, too historically illiterate to recognise that their rhetoric and talking points are exactly the same as those used against gay men only a generation ago.
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@The_GreasyThumb @jasserole @timgill924 can’t pretend I followed, but that’s at least three clear googleable things in there for me, thanks!.
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@amoozeboosh @Matthew_Hodson Besides these being very weird questions to ask someone, I'm struggling even to imagine what point you think you're making. That he's a hypocrite for not having had sex with a trans man? Despite having no idea if he hasn't? And despite it not being transphobic to have not?.
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@jk_rowling @Docstockk @suzanne_moore I’ve been trying to put my finger on why this roleplay banter strikes me as so ghoulish. I think it’s because not only does it demonstrate a complete lack of empathy for “the other side—the result of the dehumanising “us vs them” mentality of the GC movement—but it celebrates it.
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@sabriprovenzani @MinnOrchia @stephenwhittle @JarrBelle @UktraCC @DianaVilliers1 @Kimberfan76 @MrMennoTweets @jk_rowling @BuckAngel @bydarrenstyles While it is of course possible for one to have concerns about specific pro-trans legislation without also taking *every other* anti-trans position, or embracing anti-trans rhetoric wholesale, those capable of such basic nuance are very notable by their absence.
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