Canadian Politics Today

kimmy, I still hold that you’re elevating the views of an extremist minority who are probably being amplified by alt-right propaganda to undermine trans rights more generally.

This isn't just coming from the Yanivs of the world, or basement dwelling anime-obsessed Cat-girl trans-incels on Reddit.  This is coming from sites like Autostraddle and the other signatories to the "Not in Our Name" letter, which are what passes for mainstream media in the LGBTQ "community". And from allegedly mainstream trans advocates like Rachel V McKinnon, who has a new article in the New York Times again today.  If these are "radical" ideas then why are supposedly mainstream LGBTQ websites and activists promoting them?

The more I read about Yaniv and “her” idiocy, the more I’m convinced “she” isn’t really trans at all—the latest scenario being “her” demanding to see an OBGYN.

Yaniv is trans because "she" says she's trans.  That's the law of the land.  It's also what trans advocates have been demanding-- the right to self-identify without any gatekeeping. "I am because I say I am." 

Yaniv may be mentally ill. Yaniv may be cynically using Canada's new gender ID laws as a means to file bogus human rights complaints for financial gain. Yaniv may be a sexual predator using self-ID to gain access to womens spaces and to gain the trust of adolescent girls (another incident last week involving Yaniv's online sexual contact with an underage girl, the latest of many).  Personally, I think Yaniv is probably all three-- a sex predator, a predatory litigant, and someone with mental health issues.  None of those things actually change the fact that under Canadian law, Yaniv is trans.  The trans community doesn't get to disown Yaniv because "she" is causing them bad press. Yaniv's right to gender expression is guaranteed under law and isn't open for debate. 

You have heard a lot about Yaniv, primarily because she has made a gigantic spectacle of herself, but also because she's the case that changes the argument from "that would never happen" to "well, you have to break a few eggs."  Yaniv is just an example that illustrates the issue. There will be more Yanivs, because this self-ID is tailor made to be exploited by predators and malicious individuals.


And then there's the question of what "really trans" actually means.  It used to be that being "really trans" meant having gender dysphoria.  Now that's considered gatekeeping.  Those who hold to that belief are called "truscum" and vilified within the trans community by other trans people who consider it "invalidating".  Being trans is no longer necessarily a result of a psychological condition of any sort. Some point to "gender euphoria", a state of delight obtained by expressing their gender identity.  (in olden times this might have been described as a "crossdressing fetish"...)   It's entirely possible than Yaniv feels the same "gender euphoria" that other trans people speak of.  So... what right do we have to question whether Yaniv is "really trans"?  The only criterion the law sets out for determining if someone is "really trans" is that they say they are.

Stop elevating extremists and undermining the valid and legitimate effort of trans people and their fight for human rights and dignity. You’re spending far more time highlighting garbage people with garbage view instead of the real concerns of the trans community more broadly. Consequently, you are part of the problem. You undermine the real fight by focusing on idiots whose sole purpose is to make trans people look bad. Frankly, I’m pretty sure this propaganda is being amplified by the alt-right and Russian troll farms looking to drive wedge in society to make people more distrustful of one another. This division corrupts and disables democratic institutions.

Stop contributing to the problem. Start fighting for the people who actually need to be supported and stop making celebrities out of ****.

I am fighting for the people who actually need support. The woke left is so focused on supporting trans people that they've forgotten that the lesbians on the receiving end of all of this conditioning and grooming and bullying are people with their own needs and their own struggle.  They need support too, especially young ones who are struggling with their sexual identity.

  After making light of the push to promote "girldick" and shame lesbians for not wanting it, she gets to her main point which is that this stuff impacts real people, like the teenage girl who wrote this letter:



That girl isn't a prop or an extra in somebody else's journey. She's a person with her own needs who has been harmed. Somebody needs to stand up for her, and it's clearly not going to be Autostraddle or the woke left.  Trans people have Autostraddle and an army of well-funded activists and lobbyists and politicians going to bat for them.  The girl that wrote that letter has nobody standing up for her.  Arielle Scarcella decided to be the person who stands up for her and for girls like her, even though it has gotten her labeled a "TERF" and a transphobe. If it's transphobic to tell the rest of the world that this rhetoric is hurting real people, then I am going to be transphobic too.

 -k