GC Homophobia is Also Homophobia: Part 1

A Look at the Recent Statements by A Slightly Twisted Female (Brittany Ortiz @astfxx)

I have been documenting and critiquing what I consider to be the homophobia infesting the gender critical movement as well as driving trans ideology now for a few years, and I therefore have a mental picture that is perhaps more complete of what sorts of men and women explore the genderlands. So this will be a multi-part write-up of some of the more significant homophobic and lesbophobic statements made and then discussed by prominent gender critical voices. These comments range, in my view, from well-intentioned foot-in-mouth gaffes, projected and generalized one night stand trauma, and outright genocidal megalomania. And in that time I have seen people responding to these comments differently based on a perception that the speaker is on “our side” including the side of some gender criticals against other gender criticals.

I remind you that in the last few months, some gender critical feminists have begun calling for a return to public decency laws which prohibited public cross-dressing.

The Stonewall Riots started with police arrested cross-dressers. I do not support this proposal, to put it mildly. In addition, some have begun to harass detransitioners including Shape Shifter and people seen as his supporters, suggesting he was still engaging in ‘womanface’ and ‘mocking’ women for the way he consistently presents himself.

Further, the same individuals are also using the medical trauma of detransitioners as a way to cast doubt on their credibility and otherwise trigger and suppress them. They find it objectionable that detransitioners are seen as survivors who have insight, and believe they should be seen as tricksters and fools who are probably still secretly trans, just waiting to sabotage the capital-w Women.

There are many things I am sure that could be brought up to prove that ASTF’s judgment has historically been terrible at times, or that it might still be impacted by medical events in her past that she has publicly discussed. I could say that therefore she should stop trusting herself and start letting someone else think for her. But discouraging herself from trusting her judgment, when I am just some stranger on the internet who objects to her opinions, is manipulative boundary-crossing behavior. I believe that good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment, and that disabled people should not be seen as incompetent simply because you are aware they either have a disability or have a record of such a disability or are perceived as having a disability. If they are in fact incompetent, that must be discerned through formal evaluation and objective testing, not merely having made a mistake years ago, while being lied to by authority figures who were attempting to make money.