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Yeah, from what I know, people ONLY began to think they'd done wrong when Clarke finally said Isabel Fall was trans and wanted to pull her own story, and even then you had people like N.K. Jemisin saying that was a good thing, because it had harmed people (including the author, which....what?), and other people were still defending their reactions and trying to explain why it had been OK for them to police her identity after that. And then that started happening again after the Vox interview. She was the "right" kind of person but presented herself in the "wrong" way and EVEN NOW, people are saying "Well if Clarke hadn't had a heart attack and had said she was trans before the whole thing blew up...." That's not a solution! That's not a good alternative!

Also it just still fucking burns me up that people read the TITLE, and refused to read any further, but felt compelled to say something anyway. Some people admitted they had read the story and even liked it! but for some reason, that didn't make it into their original online opinions, because they hadn't been personally notified the author was trans. I don't know which of those makes me angrier.