Snark of the Month, February edition

For the sake of our collective survival, cathartic snark is prescribed by the hostess of Against the Grain in order to support your health. To that end, we hope the complementary confetti being mailed to you as we speak stimulates the reward centres of your brain so as to encourage snark.

February’s “Snark of the Month” winner: dangerousbeans

Dr. Zucker is a bit of an odd duck, because his public advocacy against the health and wellbeing of trans people is refuted by his own research. In response to this revelation, dangerousbeans says:

If transgender activists had the power we would have fired Zucker years ago.
Out of some sort of cannon, into another giant pile of shit.

AtG’s numerous anonymous sources confirm this is true.

February’s runner-up: CaitieCat, Harridan of Social Justice

On the same topic of Dr. Zucker’s firing by quote-un-quote “trans activists:”

It was me, Giliell. I used my many coerced visits to CAMH to gather naughty facts about Zucker, and got him fired.

Nah. If I’d got him fired, a kiln would have been involved.

As it turns out, the former patients of Dr. Zucker seem to generally hate his guts! I wonder why this is never mentioned in all the puff pieces mainstream media keeps pumping out on his behalf.

-Shiv

 

Signal boosting: Trans people shouldn’t have to be perfect

Alex DiFrancesco touches upon the observation that trans women with high visibility are held to ludicrous standards, and that these standards stifle perceptions of us as just ordinary flawed human beings:

None of this made it into the final piece. I am shaking just writing these things now. Because I know, as a trans person, as someone writing about trans people, as an ally to trans women, that I am never ever supposed to publicly suggest something that could make any trans person look bad. I am never supposed to write that I was abused by a trans woman, because this is exactly what the people who want to see all trans people disappear off the face of the earth want everyone else to think is true of all trans women. I am never to suggest that a vulnerable population (which I am part of) could be anything less than perfect.

For the record, the idea that a relationship with one abusive trans woman validates all the horrible things trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and others say about trans women is absurd. Were a cis person, male or female, to be abusive in a relationship, no one would ever take that to mean all cis people are abusive.

My ex-wife is one person out of the large community of trans people I know and love. The wonderful people I know among this community, most of them transgender women, have taken me into their homes when I was homeless, supported me mentally and emotionally when I was at my worst, helped me find jobs, and fed me when I was hungry and broke. They are people I turn to when I am unsure about my own often imperfect politics, or the many issues I myself have as a person. And yet the fear instilled by TERFs is so real that many trans writers, when telling their stories, feel we are not supposed to talk about anything that questions any trans person beyond the confines of our own community. Certainly not in venues for public or cis consumption.

You can read more about it and the silencing effect of TERF-perpetrated oppression has here.

-Shiv