Are Transgender People Stealing Hashtags From Minorities? (And Other Really Stupid Questions.)

In my last article, I briefly touched on a controversy regarding transgender people using the hashtag “SayHerName” in response to the murder of transgender woman Brianna Ghey. Naturally, I did nothing but make fun of this controversy — primarily because it’s extremely stupid. However, the nature of the article caused me to not really be able to fully express my issues with this scandal, which is quite a shame given it really deserves more attention as it is the perfect microcosm for a specific breed of Twitter warriors.

I already mentioned in the aforementioned piece that Jessie Earl was the person who got the ball rolling on this discussion. After Jessie said that transgender people should limit their mourning as to not be too similar to the mourning of others, many people got angry. As such, on 2/17/2023 Jessie tweeted the following:

The idea that I don’t care about the murder of a transgender teenager because I made a single tweet is not only disingenuous, it’s fucking gross. Do you know how much it hurts to see the face of a young kid who died. It guts me. It destroys me. So how dare you say I don’t care.

First off, Jessie didn’t make “a single tweet,” she wrote a thread of seven tweets. (By the way, this fiction that it was “a single tweet” is something Jessie has repeated several times during this controversy.) Second off, I can’t help but notice that she does the one thing that every person…