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You single out Tunney for being transsexual, not insane.
Yes, not appropriate for being a reactionary leader in a far right group. Neoreaction is a social conservative movement. This is similar to how you wouldn't put an NRA member in charge of the local Democratic Party headquarters.
NRA membership is a changeable choice based on ideologic affiliations. Gender identity is firmware. You can't compare the two.
"Firmware"?
Gender reassignment surgery is not a blanket solution for every case of gender dysphoria. Variable rates of satisfaction with the surgery don't make gender identity any less of a psychoneurological fact as opposed to an ideological affiliation.
It seems like the number of people doing it is strongly correlated to the increased popularity of Tumblr.
You completely lost me there. What does Tumblr have to do with anything?
It promotes gender dysphoria by introducing it where it didn't previously exist.
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Is that the Tumblr which is chock-full of straight porn?
I don't necessarily endorse MichaelAnissimov's take on this particular issue, but Tumblr's a big site. You can find everything from cat picture blogs to literal Nazis on it if you look. That doesn't mean it's disproportionately cats (plausible) or Nazis (very improbable), though, nor that people are talking about cat pictures or antisemitism when they complain about Tumblr culture.
More specifically, there are basically two things you can easily use Tumblr for: image sharing and text microblogging. The former lends itself well to porn, the latter to radical politics, and the communities built up around these use cases don't overlap all that much.
Precisely. So correlating popularity of Tumblr to gender dysphoria leads one straight to here.
I'm at work and probably shouldn't click that link, but once again, I'm not saying that MichaelAnissimov's analysis is right; that's a rather complicated question that touches on some deep and AFAIK unresolved issues in identity formation, though priors point to "no". I am saying that Tumblr can accurately be called a major vector for radical identity politics without contradiction with its other use cases. It's both full of straight (and non-straight) erotica and full of LGBT and feminist activists, and the latter are the more relevant when we're discussing its political influence.