Now this is a very nice idea: a journal that focuses on trans issues from both academic and popular perspectives. The world always benefits when people are celebrated, rather than ridiculed, or worse, discriminated against, because of traits that cause no harm to themselves or to others. And the great Divine on the cover? Wow, count me in!

But wait, that's not Divine. Rather, it's the equally great John Candy doing Divine. How could they mess up that badly? And anyway, Divine wasn't trans. He was a drag artist. What's going on?

Moreover, upon inspecting the list of contributors, a whole series of red flags is raised. Look at those names! It's a who's who of anti-liberal regressives who never saw a trendy issue they couldn't exploit to advance their own fame and fortune; humanism, tolerance, and compassion are the last things on these contributors' minds.

Reading the articles' blurbs finally reveals that this is obviously a hoax. Have you ever read a bigger load of nonsense in your life?

Although the analogy is flawed (since the communities referenced herein do not suffer from any sort of malady), anyone thinking that the person who assembled this satire is mean-spirited and anti-trans is like someone who would take offense at mocking television ads from Big Pharma, claiming that the mocker is actually ridiculing people with medical conditions, instead of ridiculing the corporations that exploit them.

As a minority community facing increasingly hostile attacks from bad illiberal actors, the trans community--as all minorities that endure discrimination do--deserves to be treated as the full equals they of course are. What the community emphatically does not need is to be exploited as pawns by those whose agenda is one of self-aggrandizement, bandwagon jumping, and virtue signalling. Don't be fooled by egomaniacal scoundrels whose sole interest is their own fame and fortune. They don't care about you. They only care about themselves.