re: #34 Scottish Dragon

I’ve been getting overly sharp elbowed on twitter I guess, since Aravosis blocked me yesterday.

He was complaining about pro trans groups that use phrases like ‘deadnaming’:

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He blocked me.

I don’t know…was I overly bitchy? I honest to God don’t know what the fuck he was thinking if he didn’t expect somebody to bite back. That was some serious privilege shit IMHO and the trans community has had to fight for survival without a lot of help for decades. We didn’t ask and don’t want his savior input at this point in the game, and especially not with a crumbly insult topping.

two comments:

If you’re waiting for people to Google why they should embrace your civil rights or other cause, then you’re going to lose. Successful advocacy is part in-your-face pressure and part marketing/salesmanship. It’s not your target’s job to just accept that you’re right.

this is just plain wrong.
no one needs to ‘embrace’ my civil rights
they are mine
everyone has these rights.
what is true is that in some cases they are deliberately suppressed by ‘the state’ who also doesnt discourage their suppression in the workplace and public square

the rest of society’s job is to recognize and respect all my civil rights exactly the same way i am required to respect theirs

“liberty and justice for all” means all or it means nothing

w/r/t to ‘deadnaming’ (a term i just learned) - people change their names for all kinds of reasons. sometimes legally, sometimes more informally.
imo you call people by their name regardless of the reason for the change carries more weight than focusing on any specific reason why someone changed