"scorn, ridicule and especially physical violence "
scorn or ridicule him for what? He doesn't appear to do anything to present as feminine beyond getting a close shave.
How will transphobes even know that they're supposed to hate this guy, when there's no visible evidence that he's trans?
Yeah, but YOU know it. So, doesn't everyone now ?
You think the kind of thugs who are apparently out there curb-stomping trans folks are reading feminist blogs?
"HEY! That's the tranny I was reading about on AfterEllen!! GET 'IM!"
I think the odds that some violent transphobe will recognize him on the street because some tiny portion of the internet has seen his picture are highly remote.
His name is out there now, and I think it's not out of the realm of possibility that somebody might seek him out to cause him harm of some kind, but if that happens I think it's far more likely that they would do so because of his expressed interest in approaching pre-pubescent girls to help them insert tampons. Some people might dislike trans people, but people dislike creepy
**** a lot more.
I have no idea what he did. I made no assumptions but this makes sense.
Yes, they may indeed be naive in that case, I suppose.
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I feel like you keep ringing the bell and the bellhop doesn't come. What are we doing here - are you just trying to figure out which scenario would upset me ? I'm not getting it.
That's a good mental picture. ding? ding ding?
To me it seems like you're arguing that people wouldn't abuse gender self-identification because being trans is dangerous and scary. I'm pointing out that that someone using self-identification in bad faith doesn't really need to worry about those things. If a guy only presents as trans when he wants to go in the locker room at Spa Lady and spends the rest of his life living as male, what risk is he really taking? If a guy only identifies as female when he's filling out his insurance paperwork, what risk is he actually taking?
You asked why I mentioned Rachel Dolezal's case. Your view seems to be that if people feel they are something, the civil thing to do is to respect that feeling. The example of Rachel Dolezal shows that's not always how self-identification is treated. So why is Rachel Dolezal's self-identification invalid and offensive, while some male person's self-identification as a woman is perfectly acceptable? I'm trying to understand the difference here.
-k