It’s always wild seeing blatant transphobia from the LGB bubble. It’s a very real phenomenon, where trans people don’t even have safe spaces among LGB spaces. Like trans people are seen as icky by many LGB folks, purely due to the fact that they take meds. Those gay guys will gladly go to a drag show and get wasted while #slay’ing, but will be blatantly transphobic if they meet an actual transwoman in the same space. The dissonance is fascinating.
But also, I don’t think this user is LGB… They used “they” instead of “we” to describe LGB folks, which means they’re likely just an outsider trying to stoke division. Either way, user tags exist for a reason; I’m tagging this user as a blatant transphobe and likely shit-stirrer.
Just putting this out there, but I use “they” about queer people or trans people all the time so as to try to keep the discussion from breaking down to personal projections and focused on the logic. I find it obfuscates myself as a target.
That’s exactly a non-lgbtq+ person would do to obfuscate themselves from labeled as being hateful, not that your one though. The racists do it all the time, with I’m not racist, but starts labeling racist things.
It’s always wild seeing blatant transphobia from the LGB bubble. It’s a very real phenomenon, where trans people don’t even have safe spaces among LGB spaces. Like trans people are seen as icky by many LGB folks, purely due to the fact that they take meds. Those gay guys will gladly go to a drag show and get wasted while #slay’ing, but will be blatantly transphobic if they meet an actual transwoman in the same space. The dissonance is fascinating.
But also, I don’t think this user is LGB… They used “they” instead of “we” to describe LGB folks, which means they’re likely just an outsider trying to stoke division. Either way, user tags exist for a reason; I’m tagging this user as a blatant transphobe and likely shit-stirrer.
This is like the “Immigrants being racist to newer immigrants” mentality but within the LGBTQ community.
It’d comical if it wasn’t so disappointingly sad.
Just putting this out there, but I use “they” about queer people or trans people all the time so as to try to keep the discussion from breaking down to personal projections and focused on the logic. I find it obfuscates myself as a target.
That’s exactly a non-lgbtq+ person would do to obfuscate themselves from labeled as being hateful, not that your one though. The racists do it all the time, with I’m not racist, but starts labeling racist things.