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tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

Some useful replies to that comment and the link to the BBC article here (the interview that OOP couldn't find):

and when people promote the idea that, in practice, being transfem is the most maximally oppressed demographic of people, to the point that it becomes acceptable to use as a bludgeon when you disagree with someone, who exactly does that serve? well it makes it easier for white trans women to win arguments on the internet i guess. because when your marginalized gender is a trump card against anyone else, you can shut down any conflict by retreating to that identity… and that really does serve white transfems the most because they have other major demographic advantages.

in my experience, you can have real practical political solidarity with people who are not exactly the same as yourself actually. it requires more work and more structure and, crucially, more education, more unlearning of toxic shit you were brought up to believe in, but it can happen.

i mean if we just look at this absolute racist debacle thats apparently happening on twitter [link to tumblr post with screenshots] we can see how horrible things get when white trans people are willing to just completely double down on their own feelings of insecurity, on their certainty in the existence of a white identity that gives them value. It’s disappointing and repulsive to me honestly.

Sometimes i wonder about the childhood experiences of these overtly racist white trans people. Because my assumption is that they have been raised with racial-beliefs that they have never deconstructed, unlike their hereditary beliefs about sex/gender which they most likely had to question or even deconstruct in order to transition.

Serifos , 'Thrown Drapery' * - David Ligare , 2016.

American , b. 1945 -

Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.