people need to realize that not all transphobic remarks are intentional. if they don’t understand that what they’re saying is harmful, EDUCATE THEM, AND DO IT KINDLY. DON’T FUCKING RIP THEM A NEW ASSHOLE FOR SAYING SOMETHING THAT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE REPERCUSSIONS FOR, JESUS CHRIST.
there are cis people who DO NOT UNDERSTAND that saying things like this is harmful to trans people. they LITERALLY DO NOT KNOW, AND THAT IS NOT THEIR FAULT. explain to them why that what they said was wrong, and do it without making them feel like shit.
however, if they are fully aware of what they’re saying, then unleash hell.
if you are looking at the notes on this post, you’ll find tumblr users who are actually DEFENDING the practices of lashing out and verbally abusing cis people for things like this, even if they don’t understand that it’s hurtful.
how are cis people supposed to understand what is acceptable and what is not if we don’t teach them? they’re CIS, they’re NOT trans!! they don’t automatically get the knowledge; they have to learn. yet a lot of people on tumblr think that yelling, screaming, telling cis people that they are automatically transphobic and should die because “they should already know by now”, is a GOOD thing to do and that cis people should be blamed for not knowing what is and isn’t acceptable to say.
it’s so fucking horrible and sad to know that people on tumblr are legitimately convinced that cis people are evil and deserve to be mistreated and yelled at for saying something that they don’t know is a slur.
i don’t want to be painted as a hateful trans person!! i’m here to help cis people understand everything about trans people, not punish them for not knowing things!! what is so wrong with you that you think that saying cis people have no excuse to “be ignorant”?
my younger sister didn’t even know what a transgender person was until i came out. it makes me sick to think that if she had a tumblr and she misgendered someone or used a slur that she heard from rocky horror, thinking that was okay to use in this decade, and you all would have fucking torn her apart and branded her as a transphobic person, when she wouldn’t even have known that was a slur today.
i don’t know what the fuck is wrong with you people, but if you think that abusing cis people for not having intimate knowledge of a minority of people that they don’t even belong to, then you really need to fucking rethink how you treat people. sometimes being trans on tumblr just makes me sick in general. i feel more of a fucking villain being transgender on tumblr than i would if i were a cis person.
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