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Very Nice piece. I like the idea of welcoming “trans visibility” which naturally includes discussing of what is seen.

This is one of a range of contradictions in trans. As many have said and I can confirm, all trans I knew in the 80's wished nothing more that to be invisible, literally passing for a woman. Women's bathrooms and spaces are predicated exactly on not being identified as trans. Fights against Olympic cheek swabs to identify sex is predicated on not being identified as trans. The list goes on.

A strategy for gay rights was to be open about being gay because when you knew a gay or lesbian person, attitudes changed drastically, generally In a positive direction. Gays and Lesbians were mysterious and scary, and took on heaps of abuse, and never enjoyed 1st amendment rights of assembly and speech and nobody cared, it affected nobody they knew, until they came out. Not speaking of marriage, speaking of telling someone that you were gay without threat of arrest, going to a bar without threat of arrest or blackmail, asking someone home without arrest or blackmail, a womyn's gathering without harassment from men pretending to be women.

The vast majority of the US now consider gays and lesbians unremarkable as orientation. Visibility worked

and same-sex marriage is just fine. Gays are generally friendly, and Lesbians no more threatening than Ellen de Generes.

I'm afraid for trans the opposite is happening. Visibility as a strategy is generally about drawing spectators into a sex fetish, claiming that freedom of assembly cannot exist for women, and freesom of speech must be replaced by compelled trans speech. By all means, let's have more visibility.

An increasing majority of the US knows that there are only two sexes, that ‘nonbinary’ is a fiction and compelling people to say otherwise is unacceable. More visibility.

A majority of Americans believe that women should have the right to assemble with only women in sports competition as well as in a lockerroom, and as well even for prison and the bedroom. More viability please.

The insufferable people who are visible using fanciful pronouns are isolated in work - don’t want to hire them - and socially - don’t want to date them. The entire sphere of dating, sex, even orgasm is a nightmare. Straight men don’t want to date men disfigured or not; straight women don’t want to date intentionally disfigured women, gays and lesbians only want their own sex, and all those groups generally don’t want any sex with such a person. Let’s have visibility please.

Puberty disrupting chemical damage means you will never enjoy the pleasure of orgasm with another person or even alone. More visibility please.

Men dressing as wildly unattractive women and claiming to be Lesbian is universally risible. More visibility please.

Millena-old treatment for puberty dysphoria of “just wait, it gets better” will lock back into place, after a number of people are flayed alive because of the medical atrocities going on. The more Americans know about the fiction of trans children the less they think it is valid. More visibility please.

Celebrity trans are too strange- men cannot pass for women easily at all and it always creates unnerving cognitive response. The Caitlyn version of Bruce Jenner is at all times a bizarre man in lipstick. More visibility please.

There was a joke circulating among lesbians in the 80’s I recall about Lesbians aspiring to look like 14-year old male juvenile delinquents (that shag). The Elliot version of Ellen Paige has managed to completely achieve the Lesbian look of a sad pre-pubertal 12-year-old boy. It’s unfortunate she didn’t realize surgery was not indicated. More visibility please.

Images of breast removal surgeries are repulsive, with Frankenstein stitches, scars: misshapen nipples and that pre-pubertal juvenile delinquent look. But

now "visible". More visibility please.

And lastly, the Jazz version of Jared "Jennings" who, lacking the imact of expected body modeling impacts of testosterone at puberty and cognitive maturation has turned into a childlile, estrogen bloated figure of parental atrocity fused witb infinite sadness. More visibility please.

Too much visibility is never enough.

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