this is not some random person; this is a former board member of WPATH, which sets standards of trans peoples' care."
Criminy! Augh!
(And I so hate the "well I don't know/didn't know someone who was X" formulation. Use your imaginations, folks. You probably did, they just didn't tell you because it was their business not ours. I admit to once or twice responding to "but I don't think rape happens as much as people say, I don't know anyone who was raped" with a bitter "yes you do" and letting them figure it out.)
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Criminy! Augh!
(And I so hate the "well I don't know/didn't know someone who was X" formulation. Use your imaginations, folks. You probably did, they just didn't tell you because it was their business not ours. I admit to once or twice responding to "but I don't think rape happens as much as people say, I don't know anyone who was raped" with a bitter "yes you do" and letting them figure it out.)
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