Bard spotting on Bluesky 31 January 2025

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Am I to understand that someone who, at some point past, publicly came out as at minimum Gender Non Conforming, saying "Hey, I want to try [masc pronouns]", and selfdescribed as a trans identity,

has published a fiction piece with a problematic fictional character —?

& is now being pilloried?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Did we not (at minimum) already cover this social parametric space once before, with Isabel Fall?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Let me rephrase:

Don't. Fricking. Do. This.

Don't pillory trans / GNC people who write & publish fiction - even contemporary social satire / commentary fiction - which just so happens to have a transgender villain.

Don't build that door.

Because it will be used by 'phobes to socially murder.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

And let me be clear:

I do not give a single frick what you think you read into the author's intentions as you demanded the author is cisgender and has no internal insight and no lived experience and no right to …

To what? TO WHAT? NO RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH??!?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I JUST READ SOMEONE WHO BROKE OUT A CHARACTER COUNT, TO PERFORM LITERARY PHRENOLOGY ON A PIECE OF FICTION, IN PURSUIT OF A PURPORTED ARGUMENT OF MALINTENT ON THE PART OF THE AUTHOR

FRICKING

CALIPERS