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Excellent piece by @christapeterso. Long read, but worth it! https://www.praile.net/post/kathleen-stock-obe Some highlights below 
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“The ground floor of mainstreaming hate is making stigmatizing claims & exclusionary positions acceptable ... Part of this ofc is convincing ppl that these things aren't hateful at all. The "gender critical" movement has been wildly successful at this, in UK & in philosophy.” 2/n
“The "gender critical" movement is thick with conspiracy theories, and Stock is deeply embedded in it. Like with every conspiracy theory, all the evidence to the contrary becomes only evidence of how deep the conspiracy goes.” 3/n
“In the same way the anti-gay movement opposed every advance for gay people with claims it would somehow endanger the rest of us, the "gender critical" movement posits catastrophic effects, an undermining of the very fabric of society, from every advance for trans people.” 4/n
“Stock, without exception, misrepresents how trans people think and talk about their identities to make them seem ridiculous.
Trans people's dignity and legitimacy does not depend on the success of any one attempt to conceptualize their experience.“ 5/n
Trans people's dignity and legitimacy does not depend on the success of any one attempt to conceptualize their experience.“ 5/n
“Like literally everything in the mind, how exactly gender identity is cognitively realized is theoretically complicated. Trans people do not need a theory of gender cognition to validate that their experiences are real & trustworthy.”
(Like we did not need it to know we’re gay)
(Like we did not need it to know we’re gay)
“Stock does not treat trans people with respect. She habitually uses vocabulary to talk about trans people that she knows most find inappropriate & offensive. She has called gender-affirming surgery "self-mutilation.” ... and trans lesbians "incels' dress wearing equivalents." 7/
“She has repeatedly baselessly implied that individual trans women are sexually predatory.” 8/n
(Like the anti-gay movement used to claim about gay people)
(Like the anti-gay movement used to claim about gay people)
“I wish I knew how to put into words how cruel this is, to cast people's attempts to advocate for young people like they once were as ... suspect, as predatory ... It is demonizing. It is vicious.” 9/
(Like “concerns” by the anti-gay movement about gay people having children)
(Like “concerns” by the anti-gay movement about gay people having children)
“Stock ... is a denialist about anti-trans discrimination [and] violence. She approvingly linked to a thread that claimed that trans people do not "have it harder than most" on the grounds that anti-trans hate crime constitutes only two percent of all hate crime in the UK.” 10/
“This is just a reflection of the fact that there aren’t very many trans people. But to Stock, it reveals a conspiracy [that] the real evidence is being "politically suppressed (...) [As] her OBE suggests, Stock's narrative of political suppression is not based in reality.” 11/
