trans homelessness is bad but you know what really matters is whether other trans people are allowed to say "transsexual" or "assigned gender at birth"
if you come at me with that attitude like what actually matters amounts to internet arguments, i'm going to write you off completely
you should know that a lot of the language has complicated historical context and intentions, and frankly I've concluded you don't want to know
it's okay for these conversations to happen in terms of general rhetoric, like, in situations far removed from action and need
but jesus christ the trans movement is not internet drama. i swear to god i hear some people and it's like, they're so not ready for adversity. They're complacent and comfortable in their marginalization as a personal brand without real world consequence
@FurryThrowPillows yeah it really is. it really really is.
it's really hard not to draw a line between whiteness and this sort of assuming attitude that everything's going to be okay. you can yell and argue and then turn off your computer and tuck into your bed, completely safe from all the bad things
@heatherhorns_lite I mean, the thing is that... Yeah.
Like, we don't try to stay conscious of the shit happening to people of color for our own health. We could save ourselves a buttload of stress by just not giving a shit and burying our head in the sand, and all odds point in favor of that never biting us in the ass. We could go off and spout a load of racist shit (and we can; it doesn't matter how little we believe in it ourselves, we've been inundated with that shit our entire lives and we know what it looks like) right now and barely face any consequence for it.
A lot can be said about how taking such an easy road is no fucking excuse for such shittiness, but there's no denying that the road is easy. Shit in this world has been paved out smooth for white people to make total fucking asses of themselves. It's still no excuse for it, but neither is it any surprise that people keep playing into it.
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