I don't call on every heterosexual person to disavow the comments of or apologise for the behaviour of others of their number. Don't expect trans or non-binary people to explain away or apologise for the behaviour of another trans or non-binary people.
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It is incredibly disingenuous to say you support the rights of trans and non-binary people but to then qualify this with reference to the behaviour of problematic or horrendous individual who just happen to be trans or non-binary. (...)
If you do the above then you are no equality or human rights advocate. We all know there are thousands of well-evidenced examples of straight people, gay people, white people, people of colour, disabled people etc being absolutely horrible people but we don't
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point to their behaviour and say they don't or shouldn't enjoy the same rights because one time Mr A did this and that other time, Mrs B did that. If you do the above then you are simply seeking a way to make your transphobia, homophobia, racism etc more palatable
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either for yourself or in the gaze of others. Trans and non-binary people are not removing or affecting any of your rights, if you believe they are then you need to dust down the Equality Act which was passed over 10 years ago and is well established.
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We all live in this world together and we all enjoy inalienable rights which you or I have absolutely no business nor right to withhold from others. It is an incredibly insidious pursuit to attempt to use your rights to deprive others of theirs.
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One thing which will serve us all well to remember - just because you once read about that horrible INDIVIDUAL who did X, doesn't give you carte blanche to hold that out as being indicative of the behaviour of a group of people.
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