Segment of an email sent by Devorah Zahav to julie graham, dated September 6 2013, where she goes more mask-off about her anti-trans politics.
Text reads:
Subject: Re: crashchaoscats, detransition
From: AP [CENSORED]
Date: 9/6/13, 19:51
To: 2282 [CENSORED]
BCC: [CENSORED]
Hi Julie,
That’s okay! I look forward to reading the rest and I think that we have at least some important common ground. Some of this reply will sound angry; I am, but it’s not meant to be antagonistic toward you. Please understand, I am just exasperated; I think you are too. You’d have to be, to become willing to take such an unpopular position and put your career behind it. I really appreciate what that must mean for you.
I’m open to the idea that some smaller number of people who disguise their sex for social survival/to assist with body dysphoria might individually be well served by disguising their sex via hormones and surgery, even if only because we live in a violently misogynistic and homophobic world–but I’m extremely concerned about how “trans” has become politicized as a liberation movement, an increasingly mainstreamed option for an ever-widening pool of people (the “umbrella” seems to get larger and larger), and the impact that has on trans medical treatments as well as on wider social issues.
I’m also concerned that the majority of people availing themselves of these options don’t really seem to fall into the camp that really is, even on an individual basis, best served by these treatments. On the ftm side it seems like lots of different things are going on, ranging from some things akin to “cool” body-modification, to some things that look analogous to anorexia/bulimia. (Should we also give anorexics gastric bypass surgery to support their “self-determination?”) On the mtf side, I cannot help but notice that autogynephilia is a very real thing, despite what activists may say. A lot of people have been harmed because of the way autogynephiles with violent tendencies have been empowered by trans identity politics, and the medical treatment model is implicated in that in a big way.