I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!!
What mr CEO is doing is fucking heinous: Revealing private information on a sex worker, placing her at risk of danger; Trying to use sexual language as a gotcha, knowing trans women are more likely to be profiled as sexual predators; Using his platform & disproportionate institutional power to amass extra attention & dogpiling on her; chasing her down, telling her that there’s no safe place that she can run to without being pursued; threatening police on her. The entitlement to do all this just to win an argument and defend himself as an “lgbt ally”. It’s disgusting. And yet, it’s so fucking common.
It’s such commonly accepted behaviour among self-proclaimed “trans allies”, among other queer people, even among other trans people. That’s what trans women have been telling everyone for the past few months, for the past few years, for as long as we’ve existed. A significant proportion of TME people think this is totally justified behaviour when disagreeing with a trans woman, when they would rightfully condemn this behaviour if it were targeted towards a man, a cis person, a white person; y’know, people who are considered by default “more innocent” than those trans women who get 500 callout posts a day.
Self-declared trans ally Matt is perfectly replicating the everyday behaviour of all the transmisogynists and terfs running rampant on his website. This is his response to all of the ignored reports of harassment campaigns and witchhunting against trans women: He’s joining in. He’s replicating their behaviour to a T.
To place him in the broader situation, he’s just one of many transmisogynists, all exhibiting the same kind of vile bigoted behaviour as him. He’s the norm in a transmisogynistic society. But as a rich and powerful CEO with authoritative powers, he’s also spearheading the current wave of transmisogyny, riling up and encouraging transphobes en masse to harass every trans women they see (many of my mutuals!) . This guy’s actions are legitimately dangerous.
ALT
