<infobox> <title source="name"/> <image source="image">
</image> <group> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Relatives</label> <label>Affiliation</label> </group> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Marital status</label> <label>Date of birth</label> <label>Place of birth</label> <label>Date of death</label> <label>Place of death</label> </group> <group> <header>Physical description</header> <label>Species</label> <label>Gender</label> <label>Height</label> <label>Weight</label> <label>Eye color</label> </group> </infobox>ContraPoints is a YouTube channel run by Natalie Wynn known for its humour, nuance and intelligence. She advocates for left-wing positions around gender, race and capitalism, while also providing a strong intellectual defense against the Alt-Right, Jordan Peterson, Gender Critical Feminists,
Contra-versies
Despite being by far the most popular socialist and queer political figure on YouTube,
Despite her overwhelming support from fans, she often faces criticism from other leftists, trans and non-binary people, specifically on Twitter and Tumblr, due to views she has that they perceive as transmedicalist or exclusionary towards non-binary people.
The Aesthetic
In September 2018, her video “The Aesthetic” caused controversy due to what many saw as a sympathetic portrayal of the character Justine, who viewed gender strictly through an (as the title implies) aesthetic lens rather than a personal one. Many former fans abandoned her after this video.
Pronouns
In
August 2019, she tweeted that the practice common in progressive spaces
of people being in a circle and giving their pronouns while introducing
themselves makes her feel uncomfortable,[58][59] causing a firestorm on Twitter and eventually leading to her briefly deactivating her account.[60]
Many fans, mostly her friends and BreadTube peers but also some
unwelcome figures such as right-wing hacks like Ian Miles Cheong, Black Pigeon Speaks and Blaire White[61]
jumped to her defense, saying that she was taken out of context and was
merely speaking about her own personal discomfort with pronoun circles
rather than dismissing them as a whole. Before the deactivation, she
further infuriated some by saying that she felt like “the last of the
old school transsexuals” and that she was sympathetic to those who were
worried about the future of trans acceptance due to “radicals” that did
not pass or fit inside the gender binary. After briefly handing over control of her account to an assistant, Gwen "the Quen" Kruger, she has since decided to return to Twitter on the 2nd of October.[62] Nope, sorry, she permanently left again on the 6th of November.[63]
Buck Angel
After
her release of the video "Opulence" on October 12th, 2019 she was
criticised for letting trans male pornographic actor, sex educator and,
more controversially, truscum "transmedicalist" Buck Angel appear briefly in the video as the voice of John Waters.[64]
Angel has also spoken out against non-binary gender identities, causing
many people to speak out against Wynn for collaborating with someone
who is transmedicalist and nonbinary-phobic, which in the process
re-ignited multiple previous contra-versies relating to these subjects.
On November 6, Wynn announced that she would leave Twitter, this tLd.[65]
Other thigs
People that are further left on the political spectrum than her, such as Marxist-Leninists, left communists and anarchists have beef with her as well. They often accuse her of being a liberal who does not do enough to advance the leftist cause that is the supposed basis of much of her career, in some cases mirroring her relationship with other trans people. One of her characters, Tabby, can be seen as a caricature of those further left than her, which doesn't exactly help matters.