Sep. 1st, 2019
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korrasera:
korrasera:
genderpunksap:
opabiniawillreturn:
genderpunksap:
Call trans people by their correct pronouns. Yes even if they’re the worst person ever.
Because being a bad person doesn’t make them not their gender. And when you misgender bad trans people you tell ALL trans people that you think we have to earn our pronouns through good behaviour in a way that cis people don’t have to.
When cis people do awful things that doesn’t suddenly make them not their gender. You don’t call a man rapist “she” or a woman murderer “he” So why should it be different for trans people unless you think our genders are less real? And you hurt all of us through that.
If a trans person commits a crime and you misgender them for it, you aren’t doing it because of their crime, you’re doing it because they’re trans and you think you have the right to revoke their gender whenever you feel like it.
My pronouns are not conditional. I don’t have to earn them through good behaviour. You’re not doing me a favour by using them for me. It’s just basic human decency.
Misgendering a bad trans person is disrespecting all trans people because you are showing us that you think our genders are less real than cis people’s genders and that you only call us our correct pronouns as a “reward.”
Use the correct pronouns. No matter what the person has done.
it’s more like a don’t think that person deserves any respect from me. and there have been a few trans people who call themselves trans just to get into other’s spaces and harass them. a
You can believe someone doesn’t deserve respect without being a bigot. This is not difficult to understand.
If a gay man was doing something awful would you call them a f**got?
A trans person being bad is not an excuse to be transphobic. Bad people might not deserve your respect but that doesn’t make it okay to be bigoted. Do better.
I don’t know why I need to say this in 20-goddamn-19, but two wrongs do not make a right.
If you don’t respect someone because they’re a terrible person, that’s fine, you don’t have to think highly of someone. But if your response is to pull out hatred, bigotry, and insult in response, you aren’t opposing them; you’re joining them.
There are no acceptable targets for bigotry.
Also, to back up what I said in my previous post,![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
opabiniawillreturn is openly a “gender critical radfem” which means that the openly support bigotry against trans people and trans women specifically.
There are no acceptable targets for bigotry because bigotry is completely unethical. Doesn’t matter how someone wants to justify their bigotry, it’s just not going to make it magically ethical.
In the end, think of it like this. It’s just not about the person. It’s about you. Do you want to be the kind of person who misgenders trans people? Because if you do, that’ll be who you are. And you’ll always know it even if no one else does.
korrasera:
korrasera:
genderpunksap:
opabiniawillreturn:
genderpunksap:
Call trans people by their correct pronouns. Yes even if they’re the worst person ever.
Because being a bad person doesn’t make them not their gender. And when you misgender bad trans people you tell ALL trans people that you think we have to earn our pronouns through good behaviour in a way that cis people don’t have to.
When cis people do awful things that doesn’t suddenly make them not their gender. You don’t call a man rapist “she” or a woman murderer “he” So why should it be different for trans people unless you think our genders are less real? And you hurt all of us through that.
If a trans person commits a crime and you misgender them for it, you aren’t doing it because of their crime, you’re doing it because they’re trans and you think you have the right to revoke their gender whenever you feel like it.
My pronouns are not conditional. I don’t have to earn them through good behaviour. You’re not doing me a favour by using them for me. It’s just basic human decency.
Misgendering a bad trans person is disrespecting all trans people because you are showing us that you think our genders are less real than cis people’s genders and that you only call us our correct pronouns as a “reward.”
Use the correct pronouns. No matter what the person has done.
it’s more like a don’t think that person deserves any respect from me. and there have been a few trans people who call themselves trans just to get into other’s spaces and harass them. a
You can believe someone doesn’t deserve respect without being a bigot. This is not difficult to understand.
If a gay man was doing something awful would you call them a f**got?
A trans person being bad is not an excuse to be transphobic. Bad people might not deserve your respect but that doesn’t make it okay to be bigoted. Do better.
I don’t know why I need to say this in 20-goddamn-19, but two wrongs do not make a right.
If you don’t respect someone because they’re a terrible person, that’s fine, you don’t have to think highly of someone. But if your response is to pull out hatred, bigotry, and insult in response, you aren’t opposing them; you’re joining them.
There are no acceptable targets for bigotry.
Also, to back up what I said in my previous post,
opabiniawillreturn is openly a “gender critical radfem” which means that the openly support bigotry against trans people and trans women specifically.There are no acceptable targets for bigotry because bigotry is completely unethical. Doesn’t matter how someone wants to justify their bigotry, it’s just not going to make it magically ethical.
In the end, think of it like this. It’s just not about the person. It’s about you. Do you want to be the kind of person who misgenders trans people? Because if you do, that’ll be who you are. And you’ll always know it even if no one else does.