Robot Versus Sealion

How a Twitter bot handles trolls in defense of the transgender community

A 2021 Pride participant wears a transgender flag as a cape, New York, NY — photo by Robert Stribley

Sealioning now seems to be the preferred tactic of anti-transgender critics and trolls on social media as it allows them to pretend they’re being polite, if insistent and to proclaim that science is on their side without actually taking a deeper look at the emerging science on the topic. Compared to the much…