Here’s my issue, when you call someone a transphobe (or racist, or pedophile, etc) when they haven’t actually been transphobic, you water down the meaning. It just becomes a thing you say that lost it’s meaning, rather than the big deal it is.

that the police aren’t even going to consider whether or not a crime was committed until after they get the toxicology report, despite knowing that the person in question was assaulted like the day before.

Why would they before they finish investigating? What’s the charge? Simple assault, assault and battery, manslaughter, negligent homicide, second degree murder? If you don’t have all the facts you can’t charge them properly.

Maybe the police have an interest in burying the charges, but if you don’t know that, you shouldn’t claim it. Because the best way to secure a conviction is to thoroughly investigate first, then bring charges once the information has been gathered. Anything else is laying the groundwork for a defense attorney.

Like the cops, focusing on the toxicology report alone is an easy way to erase everything else about what happened. Having a toxicology done isn’t transphobic, but focusing only on that and when it comes back clean, ruling it as a freak accident and not following up on the assault? That would be transphobic as hell

Ok, agreed. But that hasn’t happened yet. Reacting to something that hasn’t happened just allows other people to ignore you and your concerns about trans rights. I would caution against that approach. If they don’t take action once the info is in, or blame the victim, then you get mad as hell. Best of luck!

The included insult, however mild, must be seen as an attempt to denigrate QUESTIONING the police

No it doesn’t. That’s ridiculous to insist it must be viewed in that manner. That’s your reductionist view.

He might have not meant it that way,

So he may not have meant it that way, but we must view it that way? Absolutely insane take.

but even then it’s an example of the moderate being the true enemy of the oppressed. So it’s either a tactic, siding with a fascist system or at best inconsiderate.

Here’s the real issue, you’ve created a litmus test that no one is pure enough to meet. Rather than accepting allies for trans rights, you want to push them away. If they aren’t as reactionary and reductionist as you then they must be the enemy. Truly alarming. You’re the problem, you allow the “moderates” (as you call them), who might otherwise support trans rights to oppose them by pushing them out and calling them transphobic.

It’s funny, because I literally just left a thread in which I was agreeing with them and then I saw the notification of your comment.

Maybe it’s named after the printer’s ornament?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat

If it’s in Clifton, those guys support white power bands 😕

Your politeness doesn’t make you more right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/