#jasperdasper

Guy gets curious about some transphobic talking points and, naturally, spends the next two years researching the topic to thoroughly debunk, yes, the entirety of transphobia.

TWO YEARS LATER he has a five hour video completely dissecting the bad science and bigoted logic behind transphobia, with solid construction, delightful humor, and an ability to deadpan the ridiculous arguments he is picking apart to show how horrible they are.

Source: Debunking Transphobia by JasperDasper

It's nearly five hours though, but here's a clip from the beginning.

Please, if you have a friend or a relative who doesn't understand. Who has heard things about trans people that you know are anti-trans rhetoric. Send them this. And watch it yourself, its worth it. To some it will be triggering, given the history of anti-trans groups. But please, what jasper has done here is amazing. I'm going to put an excerpt here from the very end. You can read it, but it's much more powerful when you hear him say it.

I'm not exactly sure how to explain what I mean. He did talk about himself sometimes -- his reactions to certain findings, his research process, his own gender identity --- the video wasn't impersonal or just the facts. But there's a certain way some people on the internet have of subtly inserting themselves into non-them-related subjects that he notably did not engage in. When he talked about conversion therapy, abuse, medical discrimination, etc, he showed disgust, but his disgust never took center stage. His handling of darker topics never came off to me as trauma porn, or sensationalized, or anything tailored to entertain a cisgender audience.

Jasperdasper himself is cisgender, but his discussion of trans people/issues/culture was fluid and confident. He spoke like an insider, if that makes sense; he never drew excessive attention to the fact that he wasn't through clumsy or outdated wording. Nor did he heap praise on himself for being such a good ally, or try to distance himself from other cisgender people, or self-deprecate for his cisgender-ness. If he was ever uncomfortable with anatomical/sexual terminology, he didn't show it.

And he never gave a reason, really, for why he did all this research. To my knowledge, trans rights aren't any more of a pressing issue for him than they are for any cis person. He just did it, I guess, because he felt it needed to be done.

I will never get tired of this gag. never ever