Many cis people care about trans people, and vice versa. But transphobia isn’t a way to care about anyone.
“When…[transphobes] tell me I war with nature… I do not fall from the grace of their company—I roar gleefully away from it like a Harley-straddling, dildo-packing leatherdyke from hell.”
Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994)
Autonomy
I’m a gender autonomist (Gender Identity Today)
Transphobia isn’t caring
Right wing lies about trans suicide [Re: Steven Crowder] 6-min ⏰⏰
Observing a former coworker actively fantasize that my 21st-century transgender life is more miserable than if I were in a concentration camp.
Their goal is not to protect trans kids (Idaho, 2022) (DD)
US: They don’t want people of any age to transition (Florida bill) (2022) (DD)
‘At Any Age’: Trump doesn’t want trans people 9-min ⏰⏰
Trump’s influence on the GOP continues to have nightmarish effects for trans and queer people. If he is given power again, we know exactly what he’ll do.
Gender transition at no age. They say it makes you dead. (DD)
People saying that providing gender-affirming care to a child should lead to ‘public executions’ (DD)
If you can’t imagine speaking to a trans person (DD)
People saying that LGBTQ people deserve to be murdered (DD)
Yes, trans people have empathy for cis people
Empathy for cis people 46-min ⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰
Trans people have it because we don’t live in a trans bubble
My jaw hit the floor. I picked it up and put it back in. It fell out again. It rolled under the sofa and I have spent the last two weeks looking for it.
‘Red Flags’ in Queer Dating Aren’t the Problem 11-min ⏰⏰⏰
What we compromise on lies beyond the red flag
A ‘red flag’ is a difference that alarms or confuses you. Though the flag itself isn’t a conflict, it may lead you to suspect your date isn’t a good match.
The Gelflings are trans 5-min ⏰
And trans people are Gelflings
‘Now, we leave you the Crystal of Truth,’ the Beings tell the Gelflings who are no longer Gelflings — because they are finally being left alone.
Tucker Lieberman 