No need to discuss this, since this is the memeosphere or whatevs, but the term “transphobia” is headed towards the same fate that “antisemetism” is facing.
Saying genocide is bad has been getting labeled as antisemetic, which is not good, obviously. It muddies the waters, and makes discussion virtually impossible. It’s a distraction from hate against Jewish people, which is definitely real, and a problem.
Transphobia is something I would not wish upon anyone, just like any form of bigotry. It exists in multiple forms, including internalized ones. It doesn’t manifest magically when it’s internal either… It takes hearing a lot of transphobic shit for a long time for it to stick with someone in this way.
Internalized transphobia is not easy to get past for some people, and usually is only negativity towards the person feeling it, not other trans people. Most people who experience it don’t talk openly about it, and that is understandable.
I only mention this kind of transphobia to point out that it is a multi-facetted issue. Casual transphobia and outright transphobia are the usual causes for trans people to not feel accepted as they are, and can lead to people not accepting themselves. The outwardly expressed kinds are the problem, and part of the result of that problem can become an internal struggle that makes people miserable.
Re-defining “transphobia” is not a good idea, and when the definition becomes “whatever I don’t want to hear,” it resembles the current direction the word “antisemetism” is going.
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Genderqueer/trans folks are awesome. Groups are not monoliths though, and disagreements can be fine, when the goal is to help each other, or learn about experiences outside of one’s own.
Im guessing this is related to the user drag and OP is being transphobic (or GNC-phobic or whatevs since not all GNC people consider themselves trans, but transphobia is a fitting term here since trans people are hurt by it) towards neopronouns or xenogenders or at least the ones they consider “too weird”, but thats just a guess since there have been many posts and comments like that lately
oh I can theorize; I just wanted them to expand so I can specifically respond because I find using vague gestures instead of specific points rather cowardly. especially the tasteless comparison between the way Israel is using antisemitism to dismiss protests against the genocide they’re committing vs supposedly transphobia being used to dismiss protests against … I’d like to know what, exactly.
we have influential people literally calling to eradicate transgender people*. so on one side there is a party committing genocide and on another there is one that is intended to be a subject of it and the op is saying they’re doing the same thing.
* they’d say it’s to eradicate “trans ideology” but if there ever was such a thingt would have been that trans people should be allowed to exist, so same difference, I’m just not a pussy-ass bitch who hides behind sheer obfuscations like this