Trans Talk on Yik Yak | Is there a reason people are so comfortable joking about this? There are a lot of people who were seriously hurt by these people, but I only ever see ppl making a joke out of it - and I never see any accountability, or acknowledge the harm they caused?

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Trans Talk 9w

Is there a reason people are so comfortable joking about this? There are a lot of people who were seriously hurt by these people, but I only ever see ppl making a joke out of it - and I never see any accountability, or acknowledge the harm they caused?

Trans Talk 9w

Evergreen image (it wasn’t almost for me and many😭😭😭 (glad I’m at least better now))

Anonymous 9w

People joking about it and bringing awareness to it is taking accountability, I’ve only ever seen people genuinely talking about it and taking it seriously even if they’re poking fun at themselves

Anonymous 9w

It’s because I don’t owe a public apology, I’ve tracked down those that I’ve hurt and apologised and tried to make amends. I’m using humour to cope with the fact that I was a terrible person and I hurt people, but that it doesn’t need to define me forever

Anonymous 9w

It concerns me that the stories I see people share will focus on the person's explanation for falling down the alt-right pipeline, and tend to not even mention that they ever caused harm to anyone or are now trying to make up for it? It's just off-putting to see people frame "falling down the alt-right pipeline" as a mistake that only impacts the person who did it, and not ever mention the trans people they interacted with. Especially when we've all been on the receiving end

Anonymous 9w

Oh that’s easy because I’m constantly trying to make up for it but only in private Most people who have fallen hard enough down the pipeline get traumatized in some way and refuse to ever be publicly political again which often leads to the perception they are ignoring their past when in their mind they are doing a million tiny things to support people in the community

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Anonymous 9w

I’m totally with you it’s disturbing

Anonymous

#4 9w

Yeah what do they want you to do fr 😭 get on tv and say Im sorry to OP that you used to hate urself and other gay people

Anonymous

#2 9w

No... to say that they recognize and understand that they caused harm to the community they now consider themselves part of, and don't want to do it again. And to say that unprompted. That’s actually all I'm asking people to consider. Otherwise there's a very odd expectation for peopl to just trust others who would have likely been awful to us if we had met earlier.

Anonymous

#2 9w

The jokes and awareness I see are all focused on the person who used to be right-wing, and don't ever seem to mention or bring up that falling down that pipeline caused active harm to the community that they're now part of, and that is a bad thing. I just don't understand how that can go unmentioned in favor of only discussing how hurtful it is for the closeted person to fall down the pipeline. Accountability should include acknowledging the existence of harm done to others as well as the self

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Anonymous

#4 9w

If you're bringing up that you've been harmful to the community, are platforming that here, and don't mention that you don't cause harm to others anymore (key: mentioning it *at all*), then you're reminding yourself and us of the hurt you caused, without showing that you're now safe to be around. Just bc you now recognize you're trans doesn't mean you're safe. Is it more important to you to joke, or be a safe person in this space? (You can do both! But many ppl don't by not mentioning it.)