Tag: someone said it

free-egg-voucher:

  • corporations trying to profit off of queer people by showing their support for only one month of the year is bad

and

  • it’s fun to watch conservatives get pissed that they can’t shop at target anymore because the big bad rainbows will corrupt their children 😦

and

  • the existence of rainbow capitalism in the first place proves that society is now in a place where supporting queer people is the more profitable and thus more popular opinion and that means something

are all viewpoints that can absolutely coexist

mchaskell:

The defining trait of transsexuality (aka transgenderism aka being trans) is gender dysphoria. This is a fundamental dissonance with one’s sexed traits (primary and/or secondary) that varies in intensity from discomfort to suicidality. People with gender dysphoria face clinically significant mental distress, anxiety, depression, acts of violence, homelessness, abandonment by religious, social, and familial groups, etc., both before and after transition (which lessens but doesn’t erase our suffering). We aren’t all breaking the binary. We aren’t all liberal (or even political). We aren’t all “queer.” We are just people who are easing our discomfort in the only way possible.

I don’t care if nondysphorics change their names or presentations or whatever. It’s a free country. But they, by definition, are not suffering in the same way I do. They are simply choosing to identify as a different gender (usually in safe, accepting environments) whereas dysphoric trans people have no choice. It is tremendously offensive to me that people are claiming to be the same as me while crowing that they aren’t.