I have to be honest, at times I'll bait transphobes online when they say that gender or sex is a biological fact; I ask them their gender and when they respond, I ask them at what age they had their sex determined scientifically in order to claim their gender identity.
It usually shuts them up quickly, although occasionally some of them will dig their heels in and I love when they do that because then we get to go through all the ways that gender is determined outside of chromosomes and of course their arguments never hold up.
One of my goals in life is to publicly humiliate every last transphobe into shutting up.
i usually just tell them to fuck off and block them, but i do admire your approach
Honestly I'd recommend your approach over mine to anyone but, personally, I do enjoy partaking in a little bit of terf-hunting for sport.
Got any tips or reading suggestions? Always looking for more efficient ways to dunk of bigots and I'm out of books lol
at minimum: Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg to understand the history of the trans community and intersectionality. theres an audiobook out there for it made by some trans users here on hexbear iirc
it has a lot of information on right wing talking points too
but only after a long episode of him misunderstanding and getting it ignorantly wrong at first, being distressed and confused about how out of touch with kids and gender ain't simple like it used to be
right up until some rude asshole does this in his face and he needs to stand up for his friends/ family and suddenly understands the emotional crux of the issue
There's an episode of a 2000's British sitcom "My Family" that has a plot almost exactly like this.
CW: transphobia
Protagonist Ben Harper gets excited after recieving a letter telling that his old friend from uni, Charlie, is back in London and has asked to meet him to discuss something important.
After a few scenes of Ben waxing nostalgic about his old exploits with Charlie, there's a knock on the door and Ben opens it to an unfamiliar woman who introduces herself as Charlie. Ben quickly becomes dismissive of his old friend's womanhood, and complains that she's changed too much and he no longer recognises her. He secretly admits to his wife, Susan, that he's concerned that he never actually knew Charlie that well if she was struggling with her gender identity the whole time they were friends without him noticing.
Eventually, while Ben is in the kitchen he hears his neighbour Roger's mother being transphobic. Hearing remarks similar to what he's said by a woman he despises, Ben quickly realises how big a dick he's been and rushes to Charlie's defence.
To this day, I'm still unsure how the BBC allowed it to be made.
love that the chud carbage of: "THIS WOULD NEVER BE MADE TODAY!!" is also just horseshit. BBC would definitely not make this today
Just look at one the BBC's current sitcoms, "Not Going Out". It's shitty in a fuck tonne of ways but judging by the one mention of transpeople I remember from it is a joke about men cutting their dicks off, it would be way worse if it ever acknowledged queer people in any way beyond occasional snide jabs.
I have an entire thread on this community about how great Carolynn is in this show
yeah, that was a good post. i actually have a somewhat similar one planned but it's gonna take some work so it'll be a while
