I know I said this elsewhere in the thread but I think your defense of him and his awful views based on your beliefs about his mental health, and scapegoating his caretakers or whoever, on this is ridiculous. Nobody is making him speak; he did not have to speak purely on the basis that someone "taught" him about trans people.

Also the point about "it just seems very distracting" reads as pure cringe to me. Nobody is discounting rhe work he's done advocating for ending the gennocide in Palestine... As if we cannot discuss both and defending the right of trans comrades to exist is somehow "distracting", I think I've heard that kind of rhetoric elsewhere.