Anonymous #2 17w

(The rare mfs that would do that are also the ones to be super gender essentialist and hate trans people even more)

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Anonymous #2 17w

i actually haven’t but that’s interesting actually 🙂

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Anonymous #2 17w

do you wanna say more

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It’s sometimes an effective clap back against people who are being anti-trans, but that’s kind of beside my main point lol

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Anonymous #1 17w

I mean you’ll never hear something like “god, hitler was so evil, SHE doesn’t even deserve to be called a man,” because that sounds insane. But the moment some trans acquaintance or minor celebrity is a bit of shithead, some people will call them the wrong gender as part of their insult/punishment. Which also serves to reinforce the idea that trans people’s gender is only respected because people are humoring them or being courteous, and can be taken away for any reason. It’s the double standard

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Anonymous #2 17w

mmm say it louder!

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That rhetoric comes from a time when politicians who were anti-gay were outed by gay people to showcase how they were hypocrites who didn’t want their own legislation to apply to them. The pushback idea that developed at that time was that homophobic people were actually gay, and thus issues with gay rights and homophobia were actually only caused by gay people, and therefore gays were actually complaining about nothing and their oppression was their own fault. Just btw

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same #3

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Anonymous #4 17w

that is so interesting

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Anonymous #5 17w

Yes exactly! It feels so gross to have to intentionally misgender them, but I always check in with people who come out to me to see if 1) they are comfortable with me using their correct name and pronouns instead of deadname and wrong pronouns in front of others and 2) if there’s anybody who they aren’t comfortable with knowing yet

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