Western Vale Confederacy wrote:Hanafuridake wrote:Trans-trending is something that I've seen more transphobic people complain about than actually witnessed myself, and I suspect this phenomenon is almost entirely an internet act. It's not important to trans rights except when it serves as fuel for transphobes, in which case, the transphobes are the problem and not the “trans-trenders.” people are right to bring up gatekeeping because this is just the same old mentality where trans people are dirty autogynephiles until they prove themselves trans enough to earn some sort of medal.
In regard to being friends with transphobes, if your friends believe transgender people are inferior or ought to die, then they are objectively a horrible person and no amount of apologetics is going to change that.
Again, I’m not telling you to befriend people that consider you inferior or want you to die (because that’d be Stockholm Syndrome and would require psychiatric help), just that an ally that doesn’t 100% agree no questions asked isn’t a fucking enemy.
You're missing the point here. We're saying that it's pretty fucking shitty to say you like somebody who's gone on record and done morally reprehensible shit like laughing at children getting napalmed or telling people to go kill themselves because of who they were born as.