No. Either support all of us or none. I’m not leaving the “less desirable” trans people behind just to kick those of us like myself forward a notch. Banding with the ignorant only breeds acceptance of their ignorance. Like the old saying goes (and no, I’m not calling Buck a Nazi, it’s just the saying), if there’s 9 people sitting down with a Nazi, you’ve got 10 Nazis. I don’t condone his exclusion, not one fucking bit. It’s not “leftist infighting,” it’s the defense of the members of our community deemed less important than gender conforming, binary, passing trans people.

What you’re saying is like saying that we can’t hate someone for committing a single brutal murder because George Bush is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East. Yes, there are infinitely worse people than Buck Angel, but that doesn’t make him a better person. He said what he said, and he doesn’t get a pass on it just because there’s a cosmic scale of shittiness out there.