jessica by the bayDec 19, 2022

This is your year non-trans folks. This is the year

to be the one to call out grandma for misgendering your non-binary cousin,

to point out how fucked up your uncle’s transphobic jokes are, or

to tell your mom that her excuses for deadnaming someone aren’t good enough.

It’s time to make this your problem. How are you going to stand up for trans people this holiday?

Show threadGeraldine
@rooster I told someone that they were being a transphobic fuckhead on Thanksgiving and they actually listened, so that was pretty gratifying. 💪
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Show threadTerrafied Kestrel Dec 19, 2022
@everywhereist @rooster Wow. Thank you!!
Show threadGeraldineDec 19, 2022
@terrafiedkestrel @rooster honestly I don't usually yell at family but I shut that shit down so fast I think I blew back their hair. 🤣
Show threadTerrafied Kestrel Dec 19, 2022
@everywhereist @rooster You, madam, are doing God's work. 💗
Show threadGeraldineDec 19, 2022
@terrafiedkestrel @rooster I'm lucky that honestly my family is really good at listening and evolving and changing and being pretty great. My mom once told a friend of mine who is trans that she was "exactly who she was supposed supposed to be" and they both started crying and hugged. So overall? It's easy to talk to them.
Show threadGeraldineDec 19, 2022
@terrafiedkestrel @rooster Also, no thanks necessary, I think it's honestly just the baseline for being a decent human being. Which I'm trying to be. *shrugs*
Show threadTerrafied Kestrel Dec 19, 2022
@rooster @everywhereist I think there’s a certain restaurant owner with a creepy shaped mouth that may take exception to the “decent human being” statement, but apart from him, fair point. 😂
Show threadjessica by the bayDec 19, 2022
@everywhereist I love this so much thank you.
Show threadJoy DenebeimDec 19, 2022
@everywhereist @rooster yeah, remember most of them. Don't know any trans people. We're pretty rare. And so they just know what they've consumed. On like Fox News or whatever. If you can succeed in getting them to stop and think about it for 2 seconds they'll become on our side because really we're not hurting anybody.
Show threadGeraldineDec 19, 2022
@[email protected] @rooster my aunt watches Fox News to "see what the enemy is saying", so overall my family is pretty good, but every now and then I have to scream at them. Which I do.
Show threadGeraldineDec 19, 2022
@[email protected] @rooster and I guess I forget that some people don't actually know any trans people??? Which is bonkers to me. Like, they probably do, they just don't know it.
Show threadTattie (old account)Dec 19, 2022
@everywhereist @denebeim @rooster exactly. "Maybe they just don't feel safe coming out to you, Gary"
Show threadJoy DenebeimDec 19, 2022

@everywhereist @rooster especially trans guys. 10 years in you can't tell they weren't born that way.

They're just really cute guys.