Trans Rights are Human Rights

Edit:

I was angry when I made this post. I should have cooled off first but I didn’t, and I apologize for that. Though that does not change the reason for this post, just the way I’m gonna say it:

I’m not, and I don’t think anyone else is, upset if someone doesn’t want to set a pronoun. The anger came from the comments on the other post, the reaction of some people who stated they didn’t care about the issue, but also cared enough to complain about the fact that it was brought up.

They cared that they were being bothered but did not care to show solidarity.

I think that’s supremely fucked up. I know what it’s like to be on the other side of that cruel apathy, and I will not stand to see it directed at my comrades.

  • Circra [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    When I was growing up, gay people were only really around as the butt of a joke in a comedy show and while not technically illegal, gay people could not get married or adopt etc.

    We're watching trans people go through something similar to this in their struggle for recognition and rights, but not identical of course.

    I really like how Chapo seems to be a decent space for trans people on the internet, but yeah that's a very low bar indeed.

    It seems like a decent number of trans people are of the opinion that we should have pronoun tags here. It's less than ten second's effort on my part and there's a convincing argument for it that I won't repeat cos others in this thread have put it better than me. It's not that hard to do something this simple to help out our friends.