The Foundation Is Not Transphobic

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**Required Reading:** SCP-6113

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**To:** ECL Jeremiah Cimmerian <jcimmerian@ethics.scip.net>
**From:** Site-17 Director Thomas Graham <tgraham@site17.scip.net>
**Subject:** Assistance
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Cimmerian,

Despite our best efforts, details of SCP-6113-3's stay at Site-17 have leaked to the other researchers. I'm not gonna lie and say her internment was exactly a secret, but ever since her abduction, they've been talking about her and that damn doctor more and more. Everyone's quite uncomfortable with it all.

Fortunately, no one has the gall to act on their outrage just yet. But, you can feel the tension growing, and I'm frankly worried how it'll blow up. Demands? Mass resignations? My plate's already full dealing with everything else at the site.

It was your idea to keep her at Site-17. You need to talk to them, calm them down, do what the Ethics Committee does best. Something.

I need your help.

Hope to hear from you soon,
[[[scp-4051|Site-17 Director Thomas Graham]]]
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**To:** Site-17 Director Thomas Graham <tgraham@site17.scip.net>
**From:** ECL Jeremiah Cimmerian <jcimmerian@ethics.scip.net>
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Graham,

I can't particularly say I'm surprised at the situation you face. You entirely fumbled her containment, and the cracks in infosec only highlight the larger issues plaguing your site. This is on you.

I can say that I'm surprised you're asking for my help. Usually you have no trouble keeping your staff in check. After all, what happens at your site isn't especially promising for keeping personnel emotionally stable.

You can expect me soon, however, I can't guarantee they'll enjoy what I have to say. The Ethics Committee is good at what it does because we're a PR agency as much as we are an oversight board. But this? This is too personal for a lot of them, even for Site-17. Once they draw a familiar connection between researcher and anomaly, it's difficult to desensitize them again. To put it bluntly, many on your staff see themselves in SCP-6113. I'm not sure I can change that without taking more drastic measures.

What do you even want me to say? We're not finished with the investigation yet.

Ethics Committee Liaison Jeremiah Cimmerian
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**To:** ECL Jeremiah Cimmerian <jcimmerian@ethics.scip.net>
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Just stick to the script. I'll deal with any disagreements afterwards.

Graham
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**To:** ECL Jeremiah Cimmerian <jcimmerian@ethics.scip.net>
**From:** Senior Archivist Sophia Gill <sgill98@raisa.scip.net>
**Subject:** RE: SCP-6113 Interview Log 22 Data Recovery Request
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Dr. Cimmerian,

We've recovered the portion of the interview log expunged by Dr. Park on 17/09/2019. You'll find it attached below.

Regards,
Senior Archivist Sophia Gill

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For those of you who don't know me, I am Dr. Jeremiah Cimmerian, Site-17's Ethics Committee Liaison. Due to [[[scp-6113|recent events]]], I have been brought by Site Director Graham to answer questions, hear comments, and reaffirm Foundation policy.

Put your hands down. I will not be doing two of those things; no questions, no comments, you will just listen. Instead, I will be discussing last year's containment breach.

News spreads fast amongst the sites—//faster// amongst the Ethics Committee—and rumors spread even faster than that. It has come to our attention that many at this site are dissatisfied with how the SCP-6113 project was handled.

Yes, yes, murmur all you want; you know who you are. However, I am not here to accuse and shame. I simply want to take this opportunity to educate those who hold these grievances. To explain why the Foundation they work for is the way it is.

So, let me start by making something abundantly clear: the Foundation is //not// transphobic.

Put your hands down, please.

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= //<Dr. Park writes on his clipboard for several minutes in silence.>//

**Dr. Park:** Thank you for the testimony. We'll talk more about this later. Is there anything else you would like to state?

**SCP-6113-3:** <pauses> Um... no. That's it.

**Dr. Park:** Okay, then.

**SCP-6113-3:** Uh, James?

**Dr. Park:** Yes?

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**SCP-6113-3:** Why... why do you even care?

**Dr. Park:** Hm?

**SCP-6113-3:** Why do you even care about... //any of this// at all?

**Dr. Park:** I mean, it's my job to care, right?

= //<SCP-6113-3 is silent.>//

**Dr. Park:** N-not saying my concern for your wellbeing //only// comes from obligation, SCP-6113-3, but—

**SCP-6113-3:** It's more than that.

**Dr. Park:** What?

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Transgender Foundation staff are treated with the sensitivity and courtesy deserving of their identities. Foundation healthcare policy offers full coverage of any gender-affirming procedure and medication, usage of preferred names and pronouns are encouraged in every part of the workplace, and HR's door is always open if someone gives you grief.

To the higher-ups, providing these benefits is imperative to keeping our staff content and free from distractions. We don't hide it either, some of you were certainly drawn to this job when reading the hiring brochure. In a similar way to how we treat our staff possessing anomalous attributes, we understand that a great mind is of no use if the policies that govern them are incompatible with their identity. Some of our most famous assets—Clef, Kain, Moose—are anomalous in and of themselves.

If we did not accommodate their anomalous nature, some other organization will, and their talents will be lost to us. The same is true for our transgender staff.

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**SCP-6113-3:** <sighs> Fuck... look, man, I'm just saying, there has to be a reason you're so invested in //this// anomaly.

**Dr. Park:** I don't know? I'm a good ally?

**SCP-6113-3:** Allies simply don't care //this// much, James.

**Dr. Park:** Why not? It's not like you're the only trans person I know! Many of my coworkers are trans themselves!

**SCP-6113-3:** Okay... that still doesn't explain why you care about the lake.

**Dr. Park:** Am I not allowed to?

**SCP-6113-3:** It’s not that you’re not allowed to, just… ugh, there has to be a //reason// why.

**Dr. Park:** I truly don't know.

**SCP-6113-3:** Stop lying, James.

**Dr. Park:** I'm not, I swear!

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Then, why are the anomalous individuals we contain who happen to be transgender not afforded the same privileges? Unfortunately, the harsh truth lies in a fundamental facet of preserving site security and personnel safety.

By virtue of working for the Foundation, you have a position of power over the objects in our care that //must// be respected and maintained. The name the Serpent's Hand gives us, while reductive, is not entirely wrong. You must remember that every day, you get to go home, see your family, cook your own meals, and live your own life. Those contained at Site-17 cannot say the same, and many of them hate you for this.

For most of them, their only offense was being cursed with the reason for their containment. Yet, sapient or not, objects are objects. And, a crucial distinction must be made between the //objects// we contain and the //people// we employ.

You must be careful in how you interact with a sapient object. If the barrier between object and researcher is ever broken, the best case scenario is a visit from the Ethics Committee. The worst case is a containment breach like the one we saw last year, or with [[[SCP-105|105]]].

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**Dr. Park:** I mean... I meet with you everyday, I ask you all these questions, I //postpone// my job obligations. All for you. <pauses> I guess it's because I care about you so much, okay?

**SCP-6113-3:** I care about you, too, James...

= //<There is silence for a few moments.>//

**SCP-6113-3:** <quietly> "We have a lot more in common." <chuckles> I don't think you realize what you meant by that, James.

= //<Dr. Park is silent.>//

**SCP-6113-3:** James, do you think you're like me... in //that// way?

**Dr. Park:** In //what// way?

**SCP-6113-3:** You relate to me more than you let on, don't you.

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Even then, some of you may still have your reasons to decry our treatment of sapient objects such as SCP-6113-3— remember, that is //not// her name.

I ask you this, has a transgender object ever been treated poorly specifically for their being transgender? To call any singular way we treat an object as transphobic is to say our general treatment of anomalies as a whole is transphobic. This is simply not true; remember that we are "cold, not cruel."

//In fact,// on the topic of how to refer to SCP-6113-3, did anyone here, in interacting with her, ever use her deadname? No, because that would be cruel. Now, did anyone here ever use her preferred name? No, because that is //policy.//

Across the Foundation, you have no trouble referring to an object only by their designation. This should be no different when an object has expressed their desire for a different name. Using said name would be yet another way of breaching the barrier between object and researcher. It establishes a personal relationship that one should not have with an object in containment. So long as it is not cruel, equal but cold treatment is still equal.

All this to say that I am reminding you to stick with an object's official designation when referring to it. An exception was made for SCP-6113-3's pronouns. At the next Ethics Committee meeting, I will be bringing up the re-standardization of "it/its" as the favored pronouns for all anomalies in documentation and interviews going forward.

Dr. James Park was the only person at Site-17 to use SCP-6113-3's preferred name. I understand the desire to sympathize with Dr. Park, but, with his help, a little girl in our care was abducted by a dangerous anomaly.

Yes, //his// help. We cannot assume that the woman who appeared during the containment breach is the same person as Dr. Park. We also will not assume that Dr. Park's preferred name and pronouns have changed since his disappearance.

//That// would be transphobic, which the Foundation is not.

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**Dr. Park:** I don't know what you mean by that, ██— SCP-6113-3.

**SCP-6113-3:** God damnit, James, you know what my name is!

**Dr. Park:** █████, we have to stick to the interview.

**SCP-6113-3:** Fuck the interview, James! Just answer me, please!

**Dr. Park:** I don't even know what you're talking about!

**SCP-6113-3:** For fuck's sake, James! Do you think you might be trans?

= //<Dr. Park is momentarily shaken by SCP-6113-3's question, before sinking back into his seat and avoiding SCP-6113-3's gaze.>//

**Dr. Park:** <hesitates> No...

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Still, I have yet to address the real issue here. In our investigation of the dissent at Site-17, we came across a more troubling belief shared amongst the staff. We are disappointed to hear that many of you are questioning whether containing—or should I say, //seeking// to contain SCP-6113 is itself transphobic. If SCP-6113 should be allowed to establish itself as an aspect of baseline reality, as idealistically proposed by Dr. Park.

What do we do at the Foundation? No, there's no need to answer that, it's painted on the wall right above me. We secure, we contain, we protect.

Why? Because, the mundane world cannot be privy to what's beyond the Veil. We do what we do so Mr. Joe Schmo the Third can sleep soundly at night knowing there are no monsters under his bed. Even when we occasionally contain a benevolent anomaly, "better the world" is crucially not in the acronym.

Our job is not to weigh the cost-benefits of utilizing an anomaly for the "greater good," however benficial it may be. Our mission was determined long ago to be one inherently that of reduction, not improvement. We, at the [[[ethics-committee-orientation|Ethics Committee]]], determine what that "greater good" may be; that job lies in ethics, not //morals.//

If containing [[[SCP-500]]] is not ableist, then containing SCP-6113 is not transphobic. Just because SCP-6113 happens to assist transgender individuals is irrelevant, we contain all anomalies regardless of what it does.

If that isn't our mission, then what the //hell// am I doing here?

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**SCP-6113-3:** You're not being honest with either of us.

**Dr. Park:** <looks up> So what, █████? So what if I'm not being honest. I truly don't know the answer to your question. All I know is that there's this lake I have to contain, even if I don't want to. So, right now, it's a "no." And, it'll //always// be a "no." Yes, we relate to each other, but we're also //different// in a lot of ways, too. <pauses> This is one of those ways... so, please, SCP-6113-3... just leave it.

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After careful consideration, the Ethics Committee has determined that past and current Foundation practices do not constitute as acts of transphobia.

Notwithstanding the fact that a world with transphobia is regrettably within normalcy, radical self-change is one of the most prolific and dangerous threats to the Veil. We do not and will not engage with transphobia, [[[scp-2911|but it is not our place to stop it.]]]

In the interest of transparency, you may have heard that those in Records are busy cleaning up after SCP-6113-1. Since we cannot undo SCP-6113's effects on subjects, we have to settle for removing the reason for their visitation by -1 in the first place. Once amnesticized, their previous identity as a transgender individual will no longer be relevant; transphobia itself will no longer be pertinent to them at all.

I'm currently looking into additional break room privileges for those working in Records as SCP-6113-1 becomes more active. I will let you know if these are approved.

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**Dr. Park:** Besides... I don't think I ever //can// be, █████. It's just... it's not who I am... and I don't think it'll ever be for me.

**SCP-6113-3:** I'm sorry, James.

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**Dr. Park:** <sniffles and clears throat> That concludes Interview 22. Thank you for the testimony, SCP-6113-3.

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Hopefully you now recognize where the Foundation stands on anomalies such as SCP-6113. But, if not, let me summarize it for you: official Foundation policy on transgender individuals is that of tolerance, nothing less. There are no plans amongst the Ethics Committee to change this anytime soon.

Thank you for coming, you are dismissed. I said //no questions.//

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