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:

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Positive attention is necessary otherwise ALL the coverage of trans people would be fundamentalists, TERFs, and other psychos.

    You raise a valid point that we don't have the same energy to support the plights of indigenous people, the homeless, or other groups that are similarly being attacked by the state, but I think that can be explained because those groups aren't as present in our spaces like trans people are. We do have some indigenous and homeless comrades in this site who post about their experiences, but if I had to guess I'd say we don't have a representative sample; yet with trans comrades it's the opposite where I'm pretty sure we might have more trans voices here than the general population proportionally.

    • fawx [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I mean I'm thankfully not homeless anymore but I was homeless for 6 months in 2022 and a few months back in 2017.

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        So maybe you should post about it then. That would be a more constructive way to bring forward other marginalized people than complaining about trans people being too loud or something.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I'm happy to hear you aren't anymore. I've seen some other posts here from people that were homeless, sometimes in the mutual aid comm for example.