[image description: A tweet from @ charanderson98 that readsΒ βInnit weird how when ye hate someone everythin they post pisses u off like they tweetΒ βi love soupβ n ur like aye a bet ye fuckin doβ Translation just in case voiceover couldnβt read that:Β βIsnβt it weird how when ye hate someone, everything they post pisses you off, like they tweetΒ βI love soupβ and youβre likeΒ βAye I bet ye fuckin doβ]
Aro mlm: your attraction to men is not dirty or wrong. It is still pure and good, and attraction to men isnβt softened or βmade betterβ by romance. You are not predatory or abusive. You are you, and thatβs plenty good enough, and to be admired.
if ur cis dont fucking tell trans people theyβre pretending to be trans. i dont care if youβre not straight. the trans intracommunity discussion on dysphoria is not for you to fucking touch.
If youβre trans donβt tell people theyβre 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 βintracommunity discussionβ is really harmful.
A man saying βthere are only two genders, and genderqueer is not one of them, so youβre just pretendingβ (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 doesnβt change what it is and the harm it does.
I get that this post isnβt directed at trans people, but intentionally or not, it legitimizes treating peopleβs identities as a debate in the first place.