When Your Boss Tells You to Write About a Trans Activist But You're a Transphobe
Originally posted on 26th August 2016. CW: Transphobia
Author's note on the original version of the article: https://cilisos.my/why-are-msians-arguing-over-this-melaka-girl-winning-a-us-award/
My letter to the author
Their response
My Tweets, transcript below edited for clarity.
A transphobic writer from Cilisos says "It's my right to believe what I believe." Yeah but genders aren't aliens.
You believe in something you've never seen but REAL PEOPLE, trans, genderqueer, intersex people, you don't believe they exist?
No one is asking New Jo-Lyn to change religions. It's messed up that you dismiss trans/GNC people as something you don't believe in?
Saying something doesn't exist does not make them cease to exist.
Similarly, admitting to being a bigot is like a turd admitting to be a turd. Declaring to be one does not make you smell nicer.
Reminds me why I stay away from Twitter.
I think Twitter is kinda ok. The author appears to be writing for a Malaysian fake Buzzfeed. She recently tried to school people on culturally appropriating sarongs. side eyes
I'm all for a culture appropriation 101 but this just means she's a trans exclusionary activist...