probably & it's part of why many straight-cis progressives are reluctant to defend trans people but it's a broader thing—if you're socially liberal, you'll be perceived as more feminine & more queer. if you're prominent/ run for office, you'll be attacked as such

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that's not to say you can't, personally, be traditionally masculine in some respects just that there's no amount of personal masculinity that will override being on the team relentlessly cast as feminine & queer & by caring your handing idiot fascists a huge amount of power over you

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a lot of the worst behaviours on our side—from centrists shitting on trans rights, to the left pushing someone like platner—come from male insecurity; a discomfort with being on the female-coded side, the queer-coded side

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I've been getting emails urging me to claim my kids' "Trump Accounts" and they make me incandescently furious.

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honestly mallory mcmorrow is earning a good amount of goodwill from me with her visible if rhetorically gentle exasperation with haley stevens and her husband in the face of the stakes

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