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Online folks, beware. Transphobes have come up with a point I’m finding very hard to refute: I’m hot.

They’re trying to do to Sabrina Carpenter what they did to Socrates.

Me: ‘What if we started our arguments with clear and plausible premises, so that we exert argumentative pressure to accept our conclusions?’ Christian apologetics: ‘Pffft!’

The novelty of ‘Argument(s) From’ is that premise 1 is usually so unclear, nonsensical or controversial that it infects the typically more straightforward premise 2. See:

Every part of this badly overwritten gish gallop can be applied without loss to gay people.

I don’t know what the squirrel is saying. I’m blocked for not being a campist. But if they’re attacking Bernie Sanders for that old essay, I’m pretty sure they defended or softened it previously lol.

@jk_rowling You think trans people have to prove what they feel and experience. This logic is the same deployed against people with period pain. You’re part of this very demand. The call is coming from inside the house, Joanne.

Girls must prove that their uterine cramps are painful. Boys must be believed when they say 'I'm a girl'.

Woman thinks trans people must show some external sign that they’re trans to be believed Woman can’t see how this is the same demand being made of women and girls about their period pain. Blind to the connection.

1. In the latest Battleground Poll from the New York Times, voters in swing states believe that society should accept transgender people as their gender by large margins. This includes independents and rural/small town voters. Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.

@kinjones29 @MAMelby @daviddambrosio Yeah you’re an openly violent bigot trying to justify violence. You can be blocked.

This is incredibly dismissive to homosexuals who experienced conversion therapy.

@kinjones29 @MAMelby @daviddambrosio Trans people aren’t mimicking. You’re just trying to conceptualise sex with trans people as inherently rape of the other partner, because you know violence to defend against rape is legitimate. You’re trying to justify violence.

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby Yeah you avoided the point. Deflection noted.

@CardinalLanded @MAMelby Lesbians have been called ‘sexual racists’ before. I suggest you look it up—it could be very enlightening.

@MAMelby @daviddambrosio Exactly. Said it perfectly.

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby It’s not my problem if you believe in souls.

@CardinalLanded @MAMelby The religious belief is that a man’s soul somehow got into a woman’s body.

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby Yeah I’ve heard this before. You also think I have to tell people I’m black before sex or I’ve tricked someone into it. Think of the poor racists.

@CardinalLanded @MAMelby You’re trying to justify being r*pey.

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby Yes, we’ve gone over this. You stated you take on faith that certain men are actually women. You have a religious belief and want everyone around you to be identified based on your belief. The same as the church.

@CardinalLanded @MAMelby Gay men can’t be any kind of women. For that I’m glad, though I do value my friendships with women, I’ve grown to love myself the way I am.

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby You’re trying to justify violence.

@MAMelby @CardinalLanded I can hear the puncturing of sexual boundaries.

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby You are literally trying to tell gay men that they have to be straight women.

@CardinalLanded @MAMelby Straight men exist just fine, trust me.