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We Need To Talk About Trans-Agitators

Phaylen Fairchild
8 min readNov 8, 2019

What happens when a high profile figure in the trans community makes a career condemning it?

Division, conflict, confusion and chaos runs rife when an elevated figure with a large platform finds an audience with the opposition. It’s become more glaringly frequent for transgender women to openly, routinely attack the transgender community with YouTubers like Blaire White leading the pack of caustic trans-agitators.

White, a self described Republican with over 700,000 subscribers centralizes her daily videos on criticizing the very community to which she belongs. The 26 year old California native has previously championed American President Donald Trump whose administration has placed startling focus on challenging the civil rights of LGBT people, especially transgender individuals, having implemented the infamous trans military ban earlier this year. White has spotlighted controversial- even criminal members of the trans community to hold up as an example of the rest of us via her channel, effectively fanning the flames of an increasingly hostile climate fueled by stigma, stereotypes and misinformation.

White has been embraced by anti-trans political activists and alt-right darlings like Ben Shapiro who appeared on her channel. White agreed with Shapiro that transgender women are not actual women and drew the comparison to…

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Phaylen Fairchild
Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com

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