@futurebird @cdarwin yeah, making the point that they’re ‘trans vegan savants’ really seems to be making a bogeyman of whole swaths of people who don’t fit hegemonic norms. the problem with these people is that they’re violent, and absent some kind of demonstrable causal link, their biographical details are irrelevant.
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Vegan computer savants with Bay Area ties linked to deaths across U.S., authorities say@futurebird @cdarwin regardless of that question, referring to them by their expressed gender identity is probably the right thing to do, because the alternative view—that gender identity is subject to some kind of individuality/authenticity test—could be used to invalidate any trans person’s gender identity.
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Vegan computer savants with Bay Area ties linked to deaths across U.S., authorities say@futurebird @cdarwin not just one of them, based on third paragraph:
“The neighbors — a group of computer savants and vegan activists committed to the study of human cognition, most of them trans women — moved box trucks on his land.”
It’s weird to consider the implications of cult behavior assimilation on gender, though. I’m inclined to presume that gender identity is entirely up to the individual, but if individuality is subverted, how do we make meaning of identity?
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Vegan computer savants with Bay Area ties linked to deaths across U.S., authorities say@futurebird @cdarwin agree with you about questionable use of the word “savant,” but curious why you misgender the trans women to whom this term is being applied (calling them “white guys with long hair”)?
was it an intentional choice because you think they are inaccurately described as trans women by media in order to vilify trans people more broadly, or was it an oversight in your post, or something else?