I'm really obsessed with Angela Douglas right now https://zagria.blogspot.com/2007/06/angela-douglas-1943-2007-musician.html#.XpoWNlNKgxc

she's the Evil Trans Woman who Raymond quotes as saying that trans women are superior to "gennies" (genetic women) in The Transsexual Empire, so she's kind of the paradigmatic Bad Transsexual of the 20th century, no?

all the other transsexuals were like, "Angela is joking, of course! how dare you misappropriate her satire!! can there be no good faith?!" and Angela was like, "AM I joking?!? AM I?" and can I say, I don't believe anyone's better than anyone, WHAT A RELATABLE SOCIAL SITUATION!!

like, it reminds me of the "die cis scum" wars of 2011 or whenever that was. the contours of the moment are so similar--someone speaks out from a moment of trauma, the speech is taken up by transphobia, then "the trans community" has to give an account of that speech act

a good tag to put on this thread is: don't talk to the cops! it seems based on Zagria's research that she couldn't verify this, but Douglas claimed to have been a longtime FBI informant. we are here to learn of a messy bad life, and we affirm: NO snitching