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We Love Katamari
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Well at least he had a compelling rebuttal:
[quote name="Mischief Maker"]<A HREF="https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn">She made the perennial liberal goof of giving right-wingers more credit than they deserve</A>: [quote]She noted that after her warm interview with Singal she was lovebombed by “centrists and right wingers” who offered false comfort over how she was being criticized by other trans people. She’s philosophical about the affair now, regretfully noting that she didn’t know the relevant history behind his story defending a doctor at the infamous Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, a state-funded clinic which many trans folk, myself included, have likened to conversion therapy for trans people. She was horrified, later, when she saw Singal’s recent and much-criticized cover story for The Atlantic, a 10,000 word apotheosis of his moral panic about trans kids receiving treatment for gender dysphoria. It’s a popular hobby-horse for media in both the US and UK: scaremongering about an imagined wave of young gender non-conforming cis children being forced by well-meaning doctors to take hormones and have life-changing surgeries. “I cried when I saw that cover of The Atlantic,” she told me. “Because I realize I had been an alibi to this person who’d just written this article for a major glossy magazine with a cover that appears to misgender a trans child twice.”[/quote] <A HREF="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034163389604552704.html">Here is her more drawn-out bus-tossing after that article was published</A>. And here is Singal's nuanced response: [twitter id=1034189558173323264] *fart*[/quote]