Jess Carpenter

I have literally never been anything but incredibly kind to Hendrix. In backchannel. In public. I literally went to a space to offer support when they announced they were detransitioning, and got treated like trash by TERFs, and still did it to be decent. I’ve encouraged trans women to leave them alone, publicly and privately. I gave them my phone number to call if they needed support. And now, they’re attacking me publicly? I’ve just had enough of this daily public mental breakdown. Be a man, attempt to be a woman again. I do not care. Leave me out of your failed life, because mine is great.

Trans sisters. I’m pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit “trans women don’t belong in women’s sports” they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, “I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading” they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don’t have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It’s like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They’d throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these polices. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it’s fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.

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