8/19 You will look at this and think that Hamilton does not deserve to be talked about as such, since the work he’s doing now is radically left and therefore that means he’s moved on from tranny bashing an Epstein victim. And I’m not reticent to recognize that as well.

9/19 But this does not erase the fact that Hamilton, and other folks at Gawker, are verifiably complacent in the Epstein scandal. They thought the NYP hit-piece on Ava Cordero was funny. They were obsessed enough with it to think it’s worth writing about to similarly mock Cordero’s transsexuality.

10/19 Who’s to say that Hamilton and his ex-coworkers at Gawker still view trans people this way? How can I be certain they’ve moved on when I can’t trust them to write articles about trans people’s ongoing plight in America, let alone explicitly connect it to its other ongoing struggles?

11/19 If the answer is what I think it is (they still don’t respect transness and women enough to give a shit), that just goes to show you how willing people are to side with figures as powerful and evil as Epstein just to punish and erase a trans woman - for simply being herself.

13/19 That is the story of many a trans woman. Chelsea Manning also comes to mind, she was the leaker whose files kicked off the Arab Spring, but Julian Assange got the credit that mattered. His residence at the Ecuadorian embassy in London can be traced back to evading rape charges.

14/19 Meanwhile, imagine all the horrors Manning had to face in dark, concrete rooms of military prison. All the abuse. All the malnourishment. All the suppression. All the lack of communication with the outside world. Wherever she is now, I similarly hope she’s doing well.

15/19 This world is as petty and cruel as it is today in part because of transmisogyny. Both from American politicians as well as British media commentators. However, American media isn’t free from this grave sin either. Even its “good guys” have been very eager to hop on that train.

16/19 It’s partly because they truly believe in nuclear family values over queerness. However, this proved to be collaborative with the right in its genocidal campaign against trans children because they largely agreed with its message. For this reason, their pushback wasn’t strong enough.

17/19 If liberal and leftist media figures want to actually gain the full, unconditional trust of trans people moving forward, they have to recognize that the reason why we’re angry reply girls is because it’s the only way we actually have any voice in the conversations about us.

18/19 The pontificating you see from them about us, about our sexual actions, about an alleged moral failure behind the reason that we transitioned at all, is just another way to suppress necessary voices from people they can only conceive of as gross annoying women. We’re beyond tired of that.