|
Top-level
@JessTheUnstill I think also some older trans folks still use old cis terminology like that. Doesn't change that it's a dog whistle, but some folks use the terms for other reasons. Grain of salt, etc, for the old queers among us π Shit, hard to imagine that I'm well past the 50th percentile for age in the queer community, unfortunately mostly because of the HIV genocide 5 comments
@JessTheUnstill @saraislet Yeaaaa.... let me also say that, among a certain cohort of trans women, which may share other generational characteristics, there's a LOT of problematic shit to unpack.  @EvieAlways @JessTheUnstill @EvieAlways Some of those folks don't mean to, and some have done some of the work to unpack that. It's hard to generalize, so I try to start from listening, but...it's hard, given the frequency that it turns out to be a LOT to unpack and I'm only offering a tiny portion of help unpacking some LITTLE boxes  @saraislet @JessTheUnstill I see posts such as OP as more of a "here's some education on what terms are better to use than others" than a "everyone who uses this term is a piece of shit." Some people use it for different reasons, and usually the reason is either that they're a transphobe *or* that they need education such as this post |
Gregory's Server
@saraislet
Yeah, I know it's a term that's been around a long time and some people learned it differently. But I'm still going to try to push people to standardize on "trans woman", and teach people to stop echoing the terf dog whistles.