[dispin]

No he isn't, here's a recent tweet of his that explains his position:

"This also highlights the huge difference between the "LGB" and the "T''. The gay rights movement just asked society to leave them alone and let them get married. No impositions on my life. The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) and allow males to play in girls sports (or I'm a bigot). Big impositions."

https://x.com/coldxman/status/1855303418975539394

[aaomidi]

This is extremely similar what anti LGB people were also saying in how they were contrasting it to the civil rights movement.

Also similar to what the anti-civil rights movement were saying when contrasting it to the end of slavery.

Here, let me show it:

"This also highlights the huge difference between the "Abolitionist Movement" and "Civil Rights". The abolitionist movement just asked society to leave them alone. No impositions on my life. The "civil Rights" movement demands that I accept they can share spaces with me (or I'm a bigot) and allow blacks to have access to the same systems in society (or I'm a bigot)."

The only thing that has changed between these is that once these movements get set in stone, and legislation catches up - reactionary people such as Coleman stop attacking and othering it. This is why history is important. You get to see these patterns and realize its just the same shit happening all over again.

[dispin]

Please could you explain in more detail why you think this is analogous? I'm not seeing it.

All you've done is slot some different words into his tweet and asserted that the meaning is similar. How, exactly?

Also, your original claim was that Hughes is "against trans people being able to exist in this world" which you haven't provided any proof of. That tweet I quoted shows his actual expressed views, which refutes this.

[lofenfew]

Everything is the same as everything else if you rewrite all the words to different words. Regardless, "right to exist in the world" is a patently disingenuous description of the rights in question.

[slater]

Seems every day, HN gets a new green account that just so happens to be TERF or TERF-adjacent.

I doubt you just chanced upon HN and made a new account, so why not just post with your regular account?

[FireBeyond]

> The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot)

I'm sure he similarly complained when women asked to be called Ms, not just Miss or Mrs, too.