I decided to read a bit more about everyday anti-language by reading Anderson’s cited paper. However, I haven’t yet found a definition of anti-language. The paper seems to use applied linguistics to analyse posts on X for examples of doxxing trans people. Admittedly I’m still not sure how the methodology deployed by applied linguistics is anything more than this person says what I say they say.
Her definition of transphobia is interesting. First, framing of single sex spaces as ‘public’ eg Trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, typically call for the exclusion of trans women and people from public spaces like women’s bathrooms, or services designed to support women escaping domestic and family violence (Anderson 2026:391).
Second, this quote - out of all the possible quotes taken off X - is the one they use as an example of ‘misrepresenting gender affirming care’ for the purpose of ‘fear mongering’:
"Trans" ideology is sexist, Homophobic, anti-safeguarding of the vulnerable - especially children, pro breast removal, pro endocrine damage, pro steralization, pro sexual dysfunction, pro castration, pro surgical nullification, pro doxxing, yet were accused of "transphobia"?
Are those not factual representations of gender affirming care that results in double mastectomies, cross sex hormones, ‘bottom’ surgery resulting in the loss of the clitoris and penis, which by that very fact makes the person no longer capable of either orgasm or fathering/bearing children? Yet that’s an example of trans exclusionary / transphobic hate speech online.
It’s also interesting that out of 77,000 tweets analysed, only 9 actual posts are included verbatim and half of those are ones made by transgender individuals. And none of the posts seem particularly hateful or doxxing, which is odd given the declaration that posters on X are making hateful and horrible comments to transgender people. I wouldn’t be surprised if some on X do make dreadful comments to/about transgender people, so why not include actual hate speech to support the claims being made in the paper?