So no one thinks I'm a troll, I completely support trans people doing whatever the fuck they want with their bodies. And I don't mind seeing trans stuff. But with that said, I feel like the hundreds and hundreds of posts I see about trans people is not helping. Going off like this site and a few others I browse you'd think trans people are like 40% of people instead of more like 2%.

I feel like constantly putting them in the spotlight, even to say you support them is just contributing to this "trans awareness burnout" I hear about in a lot of my non-leftist conversations. I mean i almost never see posts saying stuff like "I support indigenous Americans/homeless people/etc". And not because we don't, but because it's so obvious we don't feel the need to talk about it. Shouldn't trans people be the same way?

Anywho I'd love to hear thoughts, change my mind or kneel to my clearly superior intellect and dialectical understanding. :kubrick-stare:

  • fawx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Hmm... So good points I suppose, I see where you're coming from. My only caveat to that would be the constant reassuring that we support you had an implicit backing of "I'm only saying this because a lot of people don't". And I do think there's something to normalizing things by not spotlighting it. Call it lib trash, but as a bisexual guy I loved the way they treated David's sexuality in Schitt's Creek. They never had any characters have a problem with it or make it some struggle he had to deal with which was just really refreshing.

    But that said I can also clearly see were not there yet in terms of trans acceptance in the world, so I'm sure they already know plenty of people don't support them so it's just nice to come to a place that is so outwardly supportive.

    Which is to say, you're right I guess, I retract my original post.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah most trans people I know want the same, just to be accepted for who they are without making a big deal of it. That's what most people want; "being perceived" is horror enough. The internet is a dark place, and to have a space where trans people can just be themselves without having to see heinous shit about how they shouldn't exist or whatever is priceless. We gotta do everything we can for our comrades. It's all love friend :stalin-heart: