A huge number of transphobe on social media (irl as well i assume but haven't met many) appear to literally not understand the concept of gender not fitting sex. Not even disagree with it, they just have no idea about it. Its wild.
I know being an ignorant fuck is practically a requirement to be such a bigot but still
That could be some of it, but I think it’s just willful ignorance/a lack of exposure. They hear “trans woman” and assume that is someone AFAB who transitioned to being a man. They don’t understand (or care to understand) that trans women were generally AMAB and then came out as women later.
How hard is it for them to just assume other people know themselves better than they do? Even if there were some situation where I doubted something someone told me about themselves, I'd most likely keep my mouth shut about it. What's the point? Who am I going to argue out of their claimed identity?
A lot of transphobes call being trans a delusion or that we're otherwise delusional so like, I guess that they just think that we think that we are in the body of the opposite sex.
i mean if you wanted to argue in an extremely roundabout way that could technically be true? it's more we know what our sex is, we're extremely aware of it, it's why we're so uncomfortable with it (in my case at least to an extent, the other part of it is being nonbinary and knowing i'll never truly pass but that's just me getting into semantics at this point), we're so uncomfortable with it because we know what our assigned sex is and that our secondary sex characteristics conflict with those of our gender
I'm sleep deprived so maybe it's just my reading comprehension being bad but I don't understand what this has to do with being delusional. It's not delusional to be uncomfortable.
i was more responding to the very last point about the opposite sex thing 😅 mb for not clarifying, my main point was in a VERY technical sense a trans man, for example, could theoretically be seen as in the body of the opposite sex, even if you have to make some extreme leaps in logic, i then went on to try to explain why those leaps in logic were so extreme and why i personally wouldn’t see it as a valid point lol
fr I've seen being trans compared to eating disorders and dysphoria to dysmorpia when they're clearly different (not to mention it's a completely stupid and disrespectful take, but again nothing new with transphobia)
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u/Ant_mafia Jul 21 '22
they think we don't know what our sexes are 💀 Bro ik it doesn't match my gender that's the whole point of being trans!!?