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On the other hand, we should feel mostly safe around people who agree that meanness, in the unfortunate cases where it’s necessary, must be coordinated. There is no threat at all from pro-coordination skinheads except in the vanishingly unlikely possibility they legally win control of the government and take over.

I admit that this safety is still only relative. It hinges on the skinheads’ inability to convert 51% of the population. But until the Messiah comes to enforce the moral law directly, safety has to hinge on something. The question is whether it should hinge on the ability of the truth to triumph in the marketplace of ideas in the long-term across an entire society, or whether it should hinge on the fact that you can beat me up with a baseball bat right now.

This really makes me want to scream “check your privilege” because as a trans person I can’t feel the safety of only skinheads being interested in coordinating meanness against me. For fuck’s sake I’m a convicted criminal already just for trying to exercise my bodily autonomy in ways that the rest of the population has shown itself extremely interested in coordinating meanness against.

If they can ban unprescribed estradiol the system has way too much power and needs to be destroyed immediately. Okay, not quite, but it really needs to RIGHT FUCKING NOW MAKE IT STOP.

People should not be able and/or allowed to coordinate meanness against other people simply exercising their bodily autonomy except in really specific cases like anti-vaxers (who willfully expose others to clear harm so the principle of “it’s okay if you don’t harm anyone else” still holds!).