Twitter is wild on this. People really have lost touch with reality. Tons of people actually gloating because “it shows they actually think TW are women.” Some sensible people saying “uh, this was a bad look and harms Trans people” being shot down and accused of “respectability politics” and “throwing TW under the bus.”
Why does the WH keep inviting “TikTok influencers” like Dylan Mulvaney and this person anyway? Is that all this movement has to offer? I would be mad as a black woman if the WH held an event for BW and then invited a bunch of Instagram models instead of scientists, authors, actors, heads of organizations, etc. Who is vetting these people and why aren’t they screening these people out?
In any movement you can’t stop people on social media from acting out of pocket. In Civil Rights I’m sure there were some unhinged people too but they carefully controlled who actually got to speak in public, how people dressed and presented themselves to strategically present the movement. They didn’t let any old crazy person come and rant wildly for a reason. You can’t control randoms on SM these days so anyone can be said to “represent the movement” but you can certainly control who you invite to stand next to the president. It’s insane that these people are even being allowed - it shows a fundamental lack of judgement if this is who is actually being chosen as faces of the movement.
If there truly were a Trans genocide then you’d think there’d be effort put into strategizing the movement. This is exactly Dave Chappelle’ point. Black people have to watch how we talk, walk, dress, so that we aren’t seen as criminal or threatening. We spend our lives under the white gaze adjusting how we behave so that we aren’t accused and singled out. Black people would never go to the WH and strip naked because we know it would reflect on all of us and we’ve lived our lives having it hammered into our heads that the actions of one reflect (unfairly) on all of us because of racism. In Civil rights black people wore church clothes and took beatings just so we could appear as human to people. If Trans people were truly the most oppressed people on earth they would act like people who live under oppression act, not think they can do anything they want without any consequence.