Drama is when your friend starts talking to your crush behind your back or spreads rumors and shit. People being attacked and belittled for the way they are and their accompannying struggles is not "drama," its bigotry and it could literally turn this site into some kind of stupidpol or redscare fucking cesspool or much worse.
If you dont wanna stick your nose in any of these issues, thats ok, but just dont minimize the struggles of trans peoples. Literally pretending none of this is happening would be more constructive than punching down on people who just want to be treated with respect and have their voices heard. But ideally, please be a true ally and try to activelly push back against transphobia.
Just felt like i had to get that off my back, thanks my sexy commie comrades :heart-sickle: .
This brings up a big point:We need more education about trans issues, I’m sorry. Most people on this site consider themselves leftists and have genuinely good intentions but a lot of people don’t actually know many out and out trans people in their daily lives. What would be egregious is if everyone assumes they’re a paragon of tolerance and incapable of transphobia cause they’re a ‘leftists’. I don’t think I’ve ever received a complaint regarding transphobia and I consider myself pretty accepted by many transfolks online but I honestly don’t know a whole lot about the daily lives of transfolks. I’m very afraid of one day offending a trans person because I’m an ignorant dumbass.
We should have a thread or a series where we can clearly define transphobic language and in form people about things that Trans people experience on a daily basis. It sucks that we need to do this on a leftist forum and that it might even make the place seem less like home for transfolk but it must be done.