Also, the trans community isn't bullshit.

[amw]

I mean, we're not a monolith. There are left wing trans people and right wing trans people and activist trans people and politically disinterested trans people and religious trans people and nonreligious trans people. There are all sorts. We don't agree on much. But there is one thing that i think most of us agree on, and it's that we all sometimes

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[amw]

It's so fucking exhausting being in the middle of these exchanges between allies on the well-meaning left and "just asking questions" guys somewhere on the center left who have fallen hook, line and sinker for transphobic right wing talking points. It's almost more exhausting to deal with this stuff than the actual right wingers who honestly fear and hate us, because at least those guys are shameless bigots. It's so much more frustrating to deal with people who are parroting bigoted rhetoric but then get oh-so-offended when someone calls them out as a bigot.

Which. That's just escalating it too, to be honest. I wish my left wing allies wouldn't immediately shoot down the "just asking questions" guy, because that just ends up driving them further into the arms of the right wing. It never results in them changing their mind.

I think what makes it so annoying is that i am literally the topic of the whole "discussion" or "debate" or "argument" that they're having, but when i speak up, it turns out that what i have to say doesn't matter. Because there is some other kind of left vs right (or left vs center) battle happening, and it's like the folks fighting that battle have forgotten that there are real actual people in the middle whose lives they are reducing to "owns" and "gotchas".

I just don't understand why people care so damn much about how we live. Why do people feel the need to go to (virtual) war over it?

The stories of mahu and other indigenous "third gender" or gender nonconforming groups are very interesting. I always wonder how much the customs have been changed by the Abrahamic religions during colonization, and again by our modern views of LGBT people today.

[nahele_101]

"I wish my left wing allies wouldn't immediately shoot down the "just asking questions" guy, because that just ends up driving them further into the arms of the right wing. It never results in them changing their mind."

Well fucking said. This falls into the risk of "being cancelled" because you asked a question that you didn't know or understand. It shuts down honest discourse, and learning which may lead to a new ally for the oppressed.