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hollowedskin:

if ur cis dont fucking tell trans people they’re pretending to be trans. i dont care if you’re not straight. the trans intracommunity discussion on dysphoria is not for you to fucking touch.

If you’re trans don’t tell people they’re pretending either, though.

It feels like this is giving respectability politics and invalidating trans/nb/gq people more authenticity than it deserves, as long as the person invalidating trans people is trans themself. Framing those things as an “intracommunity discussion” is really harmful.

A man saying “there are only two genders, and genderqueer is not one of them, so you’re just pretending” (to put the typical position kindly) is not okay, regardless of whether that man is cis or trans. Even if he frames it as just a political opinion or an intracommunity discussion, that doesn’t change what it is and the harm it does.

I get that this post isn’t directed at trans people, but intentionally or not, it legitimizes treating people’s identities as a debate in the first place.