#the overarching trans community must be prepared to deal with a variety of trans lives and issues if we ever want trans liberation

[uncanny-tranny]

Apologetics for transphobia is just transphobia. Transphobia is just as dangerous, even if it's "well they don't want you dead, they want [x, y, z]." Transphobia doesn't have to end in somebody's death in order for it to be real, dangerous, and worth discussing (not to mention that "non-lethal" transphobia is still very much lethal).

I understand why people want to categorize transphobia into "real and dangerous" and "not real (and not really dangerous)," but that isn't going to save us. Transphobia is transphobia. Transphobes often do not want to ~💐save trans people💐~ with kind words and affirmation. They want us eradicated - gone.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #like i've heard over and over that transphobes want to ~save the trans men~ for instance and they don't want us dead #but they fucking do. wanting to save trans men like a transphobe does is to want for our deaths #wanting to detransition trans people is wanting trans people eradicated #wanting trans people to be pushed out of public life is to want to eradicate trans people #you don't always have to be presented with the literal worst transphobia to recognize how harmful and genocidal it is #because a transphobe doesn't want to save a person like me - they want a person like me dead #brought up trans men because: 1.) i am one 2.) i see this form of transphobia apologism too much 3.) it terrifies me to see that shit #because what recourse is there for trans people who don't face what is deemed 'good enough' transphobia? what do they do? #what do you do when nobody wants to help you because you are either not suffering enough or you aren't suffering in the 'right' way? #the overarching trans community must be prepared to deal with a variety of trans lives and issues if we ever want trans liberation #if we are not equipped to help and aid trans people who are not what you typically expect then we are doing trans people a disservice