ihateyoufightme:

the-ace-of-weasels:

yall-aphobes-need-to-stop:

I got someone harassing me on messenger trying to tell me that the community has ALWAYS BEEN LGBT ever since Stonewall and that Martha P Johnson was the trans woman who started it all

First off, it was Marsha P Johnson.

Secondly, despite the fact that Marsha was the one to start the fight, despite the fact that trans people have been fighting since day one, the trans community was not considered a part of the movement until the 90’s. Many people in The Gay Rights Movement said similar things about trans people as they do now about cisace people: “they don’t experience same sex attraction, therefore they don’t belong!”

It is NOT trans erasure to acknowledge that our efforts within the community weren’t properly recognized, and that we weren’t given a letter in the community until relatively recently. It is being aware of our history, our past. It is knowing how the sins of our past are repeating themselves with a new target.

Also this person intentionally misgendered me so they can fuck right the hell off.

maybe it’s just me, but it seems a bit transphobic to brush the issues the trans community has had in being fully acknowledged as part of the community under the rug. 

it’s basically denying the lateral aggression the trans community has had to deal with (and still does somewhat since we still have movements to drop the T come up every now and then and some other stuff as well) as well as erasing the efforts the trans community to be acknowledged. if they can tell us we can’t talk about it because it’s bad then they can eventually pretend it never happened which can further their whole lie that “right from the beginning it’s been one big happy family fighting against homophobia and transphobia.”

Reminder that Stonewall was where trans women gathered because they weren’t welcome in gay establishments of the time

violence committed by cis LGB people against trans people isn’t lateral aggression though. cis and trans people aren’t ever, ever on equal footing so ‘lateral violence’ is a wildly misinformed phrase here