Kiss That Girl

Maya Deane wrote Wrath Goddess Sing and a transmisogynist lied about the contents of the book to cause a harassment campaign accross social media and goodreads.

Gretchen Felker-Martin wrote Manhunt and the contents of the book were simply lied about to slander her as anti-transmasculine, to target a trans woman these people already thought was gross and too loud. She also had a finished mini series *liquidated* by DC (who dont do this to writers who rape women for decades), for a tweet.

You all still buy NK Jemisin after her public fueling of the harassment campaign and outright mass hysteria targeting Isabell Fall, for which she issued a PR non-apology.

The best case scenario for trans women in the entertainment industry is you make I Saw The TV Glow and everyone else raves about how good and not being about being trans it is

basileater is referring to transphobic fearmongering. The argument than transphobes use to lobby against trans women in sports, by equating trans women and cis men, presupposes that cis women could not beat cis men in sports. basileater rejects that premise and thus she will not be made afraid.

Being able to dismantle the argument other than by objecting to the false comparaison is really clever and handy because it gets you a lot closer to changing someone’s mind. You may never convince a transphobe, just by saying so, that trans women are women and deserve full participation in society including various organizations of sports, but plenty of people who hear and adopt that rhetoric think they respect cis women and may even consider themselves feminists. Pointing out that the argument is based on the sexist and incorrect presumption that a cis woman cannot beat a cis man in a sport, safely invites them to see a flaw in the argument they thought was faultless, without having to challenge them on their conclusion, but letting them see themselves their conclusion is unfounded. And once the argument crumbles the claim that relied on it can crumble too:

Since there is no problem with cis men in women’s sports, why should I object to trans women (whom I was lied to about and told to believe were like cis men) participating in women’s sports?

It may be too hopeful to say the inevitable conclusion for everyone to draw is that cis women and cis men have enormous overlap in ways of being because gender and sex are socially constructed, so quibbling with any person’s way of being rather than just accepting their word for it and respecting them is a hateful, misguided, waste. But that is the ultimate conclusion.