if you're cis:
if you think you know how your trans friends are doing, you don't.
if you think you have a finger on the pulse, you don't.
i've been out for 12 fucking years, transphobia has never been this direct, explicit, and targeted, with the intention that we (redacted). check in
if you think you know how your trans friends are doing, you don't.
if you think you have a finger on the pulse, you don't.
i've been out for 12 fucking years, transphobia has never been this direct, explicit, and targeted, with the intention that we (redacted). check in
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rachel❌coachella
cis folks on here should have their feeds replaced by a trans person’s for a day. they’d see the fear, the anguish, the hopelessness of a community that is tired, broke, starving, and desperate for a shred of human decency in a world that wants to end us.
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This is not to say some cis people are not good with it and listen, but it feels like the majority barely care.
What will it take to get them to care?
The moment I stick my head out I might be in for bad time.
Then again I don't, because I don't have to live his life. Or deal with the prejudice. The hate.
The meds. Mental health.
If I had 3 wishes, I would wish he had been born into the right body.
His life would be infinitely easier.
1. I don't understand
2. Support and defend
1. normalising specifying that its not always trans people having to specify
2. I am an anonymous profile - not specifying gender aids this
3. it's bait for bigots to out themselves, they do so reliably
things are about to get really scary for your trans friends
I have a bunch of cis friends who are 100)% accepting of me, but *not once* has any of them contacted me & said "hey with everything that's going on for trans people...are you ok?" Not once. Even the ones pretty aware of how bad things are.
I've actually had cis ppl get upset w/me bringing it up. B/c they don't know quite how to react & it makes them - who it doesn't affect - feel uncomfortable.
He never asks me how it's affecting me.
We should have a discussion about enshrining specific human rights in grundlov and in the EU.
Denmark had been better than many countries at supporting LBGT human rights but it is always important to stay vigilant.
We should try to influence others, not imitate bad actors.
And the media actually talks about trans people a lot, divisively and dangerously.
2. Trans people are not insisting on being the number one priority.
I just had a cis friend get so upset about our request to boycott Rowling, she used her position as editor of our weekly free paper to lecture us on how to protest.
I have never felt so abandoned
I'm having cis friends send me messages telling me how much they support me. Then shortly in to the conversation they tell me how they agree with some of the things ohio is doing.
My response was decisive:
If I start referring to cis people as "IT", most people who don't like pronouns would get pissed off.
Those people don't have problems with pronouns. They have problems with the dissonance of identity. Having to address perceptual dissonance is uncomfortable.
I literally don't have the spoons to interact with political news in any meaningful way without being immediately overwhelmed
On the plus side, my feed is really chill and funny.
I've been I think fairly calm about my concerns. One cis person I know, who I previously discussed with ways to get out if things got bad. They asked what I thought was going to happen. By the time I got done, they were very quiet for a bit, then pissed.
I worry enough aren't taking things seriously, or fully see the danger, and others will be left behind trapped to fend for themselves.
Just remember. Your very existence is a threat to their power. Every day you breathe is another battle they have lost.
Much love ❤️
Stay Strong! 💖
To any cis people, queer or otherwise, its going to be up to us to fight.