TW accusation that Dr Ray Blanchard is sexually abusive

[SideWonder]

For entirely other reasons, I came across a TW's blog the other day, which accuses Prof. Ray Blanchard of being a pedophile and sexually abusive.

Can a random (TW) blogger say this? It's a pretty serious accusation to make, and clearly politically motivated.

Libel or slander? I can never remember which is which. But it's definitely one of them.

And here you are sharing it?

The blog? Should I share the blog ... ?

Yes, they can say it even if it's totally untrue. Especially if the accuser is in the US. Frankly, any TW who accused Blanchard of being a wrong 'un is highly suspect. They hate him because he wrote so clearly and authoritatively about trans men being fetishists. It doesn't fit their narrative about being misunderstood and the most marginalised people even with the wrong bodies, if someone who has studied them for years comes to the conclusion that they're paraphiliacs, many with personality disorders.

"ever" not even!

Ack, it's just the next move in the transactivist playbook. A term, which initially carried weight, is used to label so many people that it becomes completely meaningless. People so labelled end up going "whatever, so what?" so the TAs have to move on to the next more shocking term. Eventually, they'll run out of insults to throw at 95% of the population.

We've had transphobic, bigot, anti-trans, existence-deniers, fascist-adjacent, fascist, Hitler, literal Hitler, obsessed with genitals, obsessed with kids' genitals, paedophile-adjacent, and now paedophile.

I saw it directed at JK Rowling the other day. It's all nonsense, and reflects the TAs increasing desperation as more people wake up to their tactics and goals.

DARVO innit?

Can you report it to the site that hosts the blog, or bring it to the attention of Ray Blanchard?

This sounds like the same type of harassment J Michael Bailey received from transsexuals outraged at his autogynephilia research.

Alice Dreger wrote a detailed account of the lies they made up about him and the abuse he received:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124/

Slight derail but I remember it as libel is like library so written (presumably same derivation?) and Slander is Spoken.

Thanks for the suggestion of reporting the slander [?] but I very vaguely know the blogger from a roundabout work contact, and they're not a very nice person. And a total nobody. Here's the claim.

https://www.agirlreconstructed.com/2022/04/cowardice.html

I guess it's water off a duck's back for Prof. Blanchard and anyway this TW is a nobody.