Tucker Lieberman
2 min readSep 30, 2024

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I suspect she has no trans friends nor has otherwise really tried to empathize with what various trans people want. So I don't know if she really has an idea of what would contribute to trans wellbeing or if she even cares whether trans people continue to exist.

Three years ago, just after she left Sussex, the Daily Mail gave her 1600 words to explain her situation. In that essay, she said she has "repeatedly and sincerely stated my support for special legal protections for trans people." Instead of taking a moment to name those protections, she pivoted to allege that trans-inclusive students are from "privileged backgrounds" and have "frivolously held opinions" that give them "extra social status with their tribe," and their trans-inclusivity counts among their "luxury beliefs." That word count would have been better used just naming a legal protection for trans people, IMO.

In that Daily Mail article, she also vaguely claimed to have received "supportive emails...from trans students." Who knows what the emails said. Anyone might have had various motivations to send her any email, especially if they were current students and she thus had some power over them. Those trans students may have hoped to clarify that they were not participants in the protests. The "support" expressed may have been sympathy for her as a person (as her exodus was intense) rather than agreement with her beliefs. There may have been only two such emails. In any case, receiving a couple friendly emails from trans people doesn't mean her views aren't generally harmful to trans people.

She is intellectually capable of doing better but, at every turn, she chooses the anti-trans movement.

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

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