Also weird that the article title says ‘for trans’ instead of ‘for being transgender’

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago
    (article quote spoilered for transphobia)

    “He said I was trying to get him fired and that he was going to call the cops,” she recounted. “I said, ‘Call the cops! I just want my money back.’ Then I heard him call me a transvestite. I’m like, ‘Transvestite? I’m a whole female. I have lady parts.'”

    i dunno what to think of the victims of transphobic violence not only not being trans, but also being actively transphobic themselves - it’s an extremely weird situation out there

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        22
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I do believe that it is wrong to hate crime someone because of perceived trans status and I side with victims of transphobic violence unconditionally. I’m a little sad that I have to clarify that as a trans person and can’t just be given the benefit of the doubt there but if making it explicit helps the discussion and increases people’s comfort levels then I’m happy to.

        I’m also operating on the assumption that someone who is willing to beat up a woman because of perceived trans status is not concerned with the legitimate differences between being transgender and being transvestite and the active reappropriation of the latter, and instead just wanted to use the one that sounded like more of a slur. I’m open to being checked if that was an unreasonable assumption.