I dated a trans girl once or twice and got reamed for dating a guy. It hurt me a lot and I just don’t talk about it
Not to focus on me. it ain’t my job to educate everyone. Vague ass post but I’m mad
the two fears of being a trans girl is being found to be masculine or being found to be too feminine - if you're masculine you're a fake or a predator and if you're feminine you're trying to trick people. you see stuff on the news where girls get catcalled and then the guy gets mocked by his friends or whoever for hitting on a tranny, and then the guy proves he's not gay by beating the shit out of her the perverse part of the whole thing is that it's straight guys who are into trans women, because they're the ones attracted to women in the first place. straight guys find me attractive until i tell them I'm trans and the disgust response kicks in. and many many men are perfectly happy with the genital misconfiguration as long as you give off femininity we have this stupid need to pretend that the only thing attractive about another person is what's in their pants. no way on earth are you gonna tell me it's gayer to be into hunter schafer than into buck angel because hunter has a penis and buck doesn't
one day a student asked the master over dinner: how can one love a woman who was born a man? the master pointed at his plate and replied: once cooked, fish and chicken are both meat. the student was enlightened.
You're right to be mad. Despite widespread homophobia and discrimination still, I do believe it has reduced and there are now laws being created e.g. to be legally married. I absolutely know it still isn't rosy or that progress isn't quick enough or good enough but I do feel there is progress and I think it will continue and I hope it accelerates too. There will always be prejudice though. I hope the same will happen for the trans community too and that it's faster but who knows.
Everything the Right was HOPPING MAD ABOUT is mainstream AF now. We were 100% gonna go to hell and take the country with us playing Dungeons & Dragons. Then Magic the Gathering made billions, Harry Potter became a theme park, there are six gaming cafes within biking distance and frickin' Hugh Grant is the bad guy in the new Dungions & Dragons movie. We were 100% going to go to hell and take the country with us for smoking dope. Then California effectively legalized it, venture capitalists got rich, your mom revealed she'd been smoking indica on the side for 30 years and weed is legal in 23 states. We were 100% going to go to hell and take the country with us for listening to Boy George. We were 100% going to go to hell and take the country with us for playing video games. We were 100% going to go to hell and take the country with us for listening to... I mean, look. Your Nana doesn't even realize how mad she was at that nice black man on her favorite cop procedurals. This trans shit fucking sucks and it's stupid as hell and it's entirely because the Republican tribe has nothing but purity and cleanliness beefs as propagated by their failing, myopic mullahs. We're all dealing with an ideology in collapse and those always get uglier before they die out.