Hi Quinnae—
Thanks for the insightful and passionate commentary titled ”The Master’s Tools,” about my first of several upcoming profiles of fringe element netkooks in the community. Though I usually don’t respond to anonymous posts like yours, I wanted to address a couple of your points. As you say, the betrayal of other trans people is a serious problem. There is plenty of room for dissent in the community (see any online forum). The trolls I profile number in the dozens worldwide, yet account for something like 80% of the bullshit we have to deal with. You could count on two hands the people responsible for 50% of the nonsense. They are the ultimate betrayers, those who hurt all of us and waste our time and energy while trying to make themselves feel better.
It should be clear by now that I am a big fan of ad hominem arguments when I feel they are warranted. My motto: comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable. These betrayers assert their authority and authenticity from the comfort of anonymity, or secrecy, or shame. Ergo, they are going to get afflicted by yours truly.
I believe that “consider the source” is an important axiom when looking for information by and about the community. If a “scientist” proclaims that most trans women he knows are sex workers, but won’t admit that his sexual interest in trans sex workers might be causing a teensy-weensy bit of confirmation bias, I am going to say “consider the source.” And I’ll do it in a not-nice ad hominem way when discussing that kind of pathetic hypocritical closet case.
I have a zero-tolerance policy on that transkids.us hoax. Some idiot academics have quoted that site as if it is legitimate. It’s in a college textbook. Every single person involved will be hunted down and exposed until that site is gone. The reason? Because every single person involved is not what they claim to be when the truth emerges. When transkids.us went offline last year, I was done. Then Candice Brown Elliott decided to resurrect it, as part of her deluded assertion that these guys consider her a “homosexual transsexual.” She fails to realize that they consider Candice Brown Elliott a TEXTBOOK “nonhomosexual transsexual,” as in Ray Blanchard discusses people just like her in a book. I’m sure she wouldn’t be so vigorously defending this bogus taxonomy and terminology if they just gave her an honest answer on what they think she is: a nonhomosexual and “a man without a penis,” to quote Blanchard. They think her husband is just a prop she uses in her paraphilic fantasy. It’s mind-boggling that this otherwise intelligent person can be such a deluded idiot regarding this one thing.
These HBS trolls are being handled well by a lot of other people doing excellent global vector control. Like the transkids.us hoaxers, every HBS person insists they are a “true transsexual,” yet would be classified otherwise by the “experts” they obsequiously extol. Their desire for attention and validation from authority figures is the same desire that drives Candice. Just like Anjelica Kieltyka, Candice Brown Elliott contacted J. Michael Bailey directly in hope of getting some attention and validation, and to align herself with what she considers “authorities.” Looking at Candice’s “before” pic, I bet he was a little brown-noser in high school, too.
The main reason I wrote this reply is to say that I have not “outed” anyone. Both Candice Brown Elliott and Courtney Holder have published extensively on trans issues online, including under their real names. Both are public figures for purposes of this discussion, and my profiles constitute fair comment. Neither has been put in harm’s way by me, since I am merely commenting on materials they themselves published. That is in the public interest. I have been at this for a while now, and I have prevailed in every legal challenge to date brought by kooks and fraudsters who were mad that I told the truth about them. Why? Because the truth is Constitutionally-protected fair comment in our great nation.
My comment on “passing” is because both of these yutzes claim that part of the evidence of their “true transsexualism” is how well they pass and how stealth they are. There’s really no way to discuss that assertion without pointing out the obvious: neither of them pass as their target identity. The first note I ever got from Candice was occasioned by a doctor who thought she was a MAN and said so to her face. Courtney Holder looks like a weird white dude in blackface with a dimestore fall pinned to his head. Am I lookist or any number of –ists because I make this observation? Does my lack of respect for these two dorks make me look bad or undercut my own authority? Probably. I contain multitudes, I guess.
The before-and-after images are important. They show that the transracialist is about as white as they come when not prancing around in blackface. The other one shows that Candice Brown Elliott was a regular, albeit nerdy, guy in high school: Boy Scouts, making radios, man-crap like that. This whole self-report of being ultra-femmy in school is disproven by the photographic evidence she herself published. The people she’s defending consider her a TEXTBOOK nonhomosexual transsexual, as I said before. These two wannabes wouldn’t be doing all of this if they understood how others see them. In order for others to see them, it’s necessary to show what we’re talking about here.
I don’t have any malice toward these guys. In fact, I think they are quite funny, as do a lot of other people. I just wish they were both in on the joke, too. Problem is, they are the joke, and there’s really no nice way to point that out. Until they are in on it, our community’s oppressors will rub their hands gleefully at every pronouncement these two make. And that’s no joke.
Thanks again for the thoughtful comments!
