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At 5:23 p.m. yesterday, British comedian Avery Edison was detained at Pearson International Airport after flying to Toronto to visit her girlfriend. On its face, this was a routine detainment—she reports that she was prevented from coming into Canada because she had overstayed her student visa on a previous visit—but thanks to the magic combination of Twitter, Pearson’s free wifi and Edison’s wit, the situation resulted in an eight-hour tweet-a-thon detailing every twist and turn of the case.

This hits unbelievably close to my own pre- (heck, at this point, I might as well give in and say ‘non-‘, as I’m never affording the surgery without hitting the lotto or my inheritance coming in)-op life and even closer to that of my best friend, who once managed to get denied entry to the UK when she was under the impression from its consulate officials here that she had her permanent-residence visa ready to go.

But on the other hand, that’s unlikely to be of interest to an audience of mostly-cisgender folks. What is, is that rather than holding Edison in immigration detention or putting her on a depo flight back to England, Toronto’s finest initially took her to a men’s detention facility. In Genpop. Did I mention that Edison has something I can’t have until after surgery—a national passport with an ‘F’ on it?

And that’s where things were when a joker named Todd stepped in and shat all over the comments with an idea that I know some Lizards actually agree with—she needs to be treated as a ‘he’ as long as there’s external plumbing there—and one that I hope no one does—that ‘he’ indeed belongs in general population in a men’s prison for the crime of trying to re-enter a country having overstayed a visa. And that the inevitable repeated rapes (hormone therapy leaves even those who started it post-puberty with muscular structure nearer that of their gender-conforming sex, even while their birth organs are trying to counteract that by still being there to produce their (overpowered) contribution, and one’s very scent often matches that of the target sex as well, so she becomes an even BIGGER target for heterosexual inmates than your average ‘new fish’, who rarely get out un-raped) are part and parcel of what she signed up for when she ‘became a criminal’, which apparently involves committing one crime and thus forever-after being programmed to commit every crime whenever opportunity arises, even without motive. Then he adds in the crazy by suggesting that a large portion of MtF people are men faking it specifically so they can commit a crime to be imprisoned with, and commence raping, externally-female people. AND MULTIPLE PEOPLE KEEP VOTING UP HIS EVERY CRAZY COMMENT.

So nice to see that our ‘best’ thought processes are—at least apparently—being exported to Canada, as Todd seems to be painting himself as a Canadian rather than an American when mentioning all this.

(footnote: Edison was eventually transferred to the women-only jail in Toronto instead…where even if she were in Genpop, which she’s probably not, the inmates would probably be safer from her than she would be in even solitary of a men’s facility. Though she’s still in a prison rather than immigration holding, which is its own brand of crazy…)