daisydeadhead:

rebloggingmeisathoughtcrime:

I’ve never really been a regular reader of Feministe so I don’t really have any insight. How long ago did it happen? If I remember correctly tigtog was a blogger there and she was instrumental in introducing the reductive idea of “TERF” to the online feminist community, so I imagine that if you stepped out of line in any fashion WRT trans issues, there’s a good chance that’s the reason.

This was only one trans-oriented post, which was about an intersex police officer in Atlanta, Dani Harris. I was very respectful. But the comments at Feministe were mixed, people thought I should have called her either one or the other (intersex or trans), but as you can see, what I did was quote the AJC article at length and wanted to talk about the coverage itself too.

I wanted to talk about the biological basis for behavior, since Dani believed there was. That might have gotten me censored?

But I am pretty sure it was a result of being bounced off an email list that some Feministe bloggers were also part of. They decided to make me an unperson as a result. I have no other account of the deletions, so that is the one I have settled on.

Lots of that “backchannel” stuff goes on in Blogdonia and it benefits the people with the most connections and the most power.