From a Youtube comment on a video about a person claiming a PhD in psychology, and a move from "trans ally" to gender-critical shithead. Never a trans ally. This is someone who viewed herself as a big ally to the trans community because...well, because sometimes she said some things online that weren't completely awful about us. Being an ally is not something you do once, slap a label on your shirt saying "Trans ALLY!", and never mention again. It's a process. The word ally is also a verb, and should be treated as one. It's not something you did, it's something you are doing. Also, I call some level of bull-crap on this PhD anyway. Does she really have a PhD, and not at the same time understand the most basic realities of reasoning? Like, you don't argue from the specific to the general? If you see a three-legged dog, this woman would say, "you therefore should treat all future dogs as having three legs, and if they don't have three legs, they're not really dogs." I mean, I learned that in undergrad. How'd she miss it through years of postgrad work? She "did her own research". That's interesting. So she gathered a group of trans people and a group of cis people who definitely weren't trans in hiding or unknowing yet, and put them into a study and control group, and observed their responses to situations to accumulate data about how they differed from one another? Because that's what I learned about how to do research in the social sciences. Do those not apply to psychology? I had rather thought they did. What she did was google "trans people bad", and read some blog and Twitter posts from the results. That's not research. That's just confirmation bias' mainspring of action in the modern world. It's what the right wing calls "research". The kind that RFK Jr does. 1/4 #Trans

When RFK Jr. "investigates" autism, be aware that he is deliberately and knowingly engaging in eugenics. He's literally looking for ways to eliminate people like me from the human race. I'm autistic. So when you ask "what causes you?", you're positioning me as something that needs to be investigated. Something that needs to be "cured", which is to say, eliminated. Because I think in a different pattern than some folk do. When someone says, "X causes autism, so avoid X", they're saying, "or your kid might have (gasp) *autism* too!" This is eugenics. It's Nazi stuff. Not an exaggeration. A "science" under the Nazis. We are not broken. We do not need fixing. We just think differently. But we have always been around. That dude that wrote an eleven-volume handwritten guide to every herb in one county in England, or wherever it was? Telling me he wasn't one of my people? GTF. We are and always have been productive and innovative members of society. If anything, we should be seen as an advantage to the species: diversity of thought is *better* thought. Not ours or yours better - but ours and yours are. We aren't a threat, we're not (for the most part) needing round-the-clock specialist care - but be human, will you? If someone needs that, maybe give it to them? Because they're people? Didn't we fight a big war about this a few years back? Something about a guy with a bad moustache who didn't like the disabled people in his society? Among his many targets? Seems to me his central thesis was "I will decide who's people and who isn't people." And that some of us are saying, "How about maybe not? How about all the people matter, and we try to keep ourselves alive all together?" I cannot personally imagine how anyone decides his plan is better. Or more moral. But I'll be over here on Team Everybody Else. #ActuallyAutistic