I support trans people, but if one of them cut my legs off with an axe, I’d probably be a little bit upset.
I don’t support ANYONE or ANYTHING unconditionally.
I support trans people but I am not one of them.
And if that means I cannot support, then so be it.
Har har har
Ooo I wanna try
I support Trans people but this coffee shop this Trans lady in town opened, her coffee is sour. Will someone please teach her to make coffee so supporting her doesn’t taste bad?
How was that? Also why does my autocarrot capitalize Trans? Is it like Black when referring to identifiers? The Chicago manual of style didn’t prepare me for this
I support trans people, but not unconditionally.
Only sith deal in absolutes
I support trans people, but not trans billionaires.
But you support the transgenderness of those billionaires, even if you do not support their billionaireness. Am I correct?
Fits well with the Not Racist Butt
Oh man I need to save that for a new avatar.
But it’s not Simpsons based.
I am so torn.
But it’s a butt
I support trans people butt I’m honestly a coward who does not want to get stoned for it.
I support trans people, but I’m also ok with non-trans people and anyone between and otherwise!
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I support trans people, but I still feel a little bit uncomfortable around them because of my conservative upbringing and how hard “trans = bad” was driven into my head. I’m working on improving that and every time I interact with someone who is trans I become a little bit more comfortable with it.
If I ever felt the need to tell someone this feeling, I think I would completely rephrase it to avoid this situation anyway.
Im the trans girl your parents warned you about >:3
I get it. I had to do a lot of unlearning just to be comfortable with myself. I can hardly blame folks who are trying for slipping up as long as they do what the can to make it right.
Some of us grew up with that same belief set about ourselves.
I think theres a lot of opportunity to say that kind of thing kindly to a friend or person. As someone who’s working on not seeing herslef as bad just because I exist, the fact that you’re working towards fixing that internal bias helps on that journey for anyone traveling it
You’re doing infinitely more work than the majority of the US right now; it’s much appreciated that yoy’re confronting your own discomfort with kindness and compassion rather than the usual anger and vitriol that leads to violence against trans people
That’s fair, I had sorts of folks I had to spend time around to get comfortable with too. I think a lot of people think that it’s necessary or easy to suddenly become comfortable with sorts of people who are marginalized. But what we should be doing is demanding people be moving towards a more equal and free society and not making their discomfort those people’s problem.
ETA: building comfort with those groups is also important, but it’s slow and it’s something we shouldn’t beat people up for not being quite at yet.
JKR has done more damage than the obvious. “My allyship ends when it becomes mildly inconvenient for me.”
I do, however, support the butts of trans people.
Both hands there Goggalor
I support trans people but would rather drop them ans journey into the unfathomable abyss with them.
But (except for) Caitlyn Jenner?
Oh, she’s a billionaire not a people
I support her being trans, that’s separate from her being a bad person. Tangential (not aimed at you!): there’s this thing where “allies” suddenly think it’s okay to be transphobic against a bad person and you find out they have a whole arsenal of remarks they’d been dying to use
Yeah, this is a big problem that I see a lot.
A tangential phrase that comes to mind is “I support women’s wrongs as well as women’s rights”. Well supporting trans wrongs as a subset of supporting trans rights means understanding that trans folk have the right to be assholes, and everyone has the right to challenge them on that, independent of their transness.
Even when the brand of assholery is specifically linked to them leveraging their trans identity to do harm to the trans community (Caitlyn Jenner has done some of this, but Blair White comes to mind as a better example of this), we can still attack them for this without attacking their transness
Because the thing is about rights is that they’re meant to be inalienable. If someone says they support trans people’s right to not be misgendered, but then they misgender a trans person they consider to be bad, then they’re treating basic human respect as a privilege that can be given and taken away at will — that is, they’re not actually treating this as a right
