This is all so awful, Julia. I help edit a small queer publication, and two of our transgender writers were assaulted in the street at random in the UK this summer because they were transgender.

I have been worried about rhetoric turning into actual political violence, and it's happening even faster than I worried. When somebody you work with, whose writing you fuss over lovingly, sends you a picture of their battered face, it becomes so incredibly personal.

Cade's manifesto is scary as hell, not just because of how awful it is, but because of how predictable it was. And unless the gender-crit crowd reign themselves in, that manifesto is only the beginning of things. Do try to stay safe!