#Trans If you have transitioned from one thing to another, why include the word trans? You won’t mention your “dead name,” so why point out the rest of your past. Why not concentrate on today and the future?
@AlliFlowers 1) I should be exactly as free to talk about my past as literally every other person on this planet 2) I don’t owe you invisibility for your comfort 3) I’m proud of the Herculean effort it took to get here 4) it makes trans youth safer 5) it isn’t an option anyway because I don’t pass, not everyone does or ever will and 6) because visibility is essential to gaining civil rights. The real question is: why do you think you have the right to ask me to hide??
@phoenixashes76 I’m not asking you to hide. But the fact that my male friend was once a female, or even that my female friend likes women, or that I like just about all humans of any sex or gender orientation, is about as relevant to most conversations as is shoe size.
@AlliFlowers that simply isn’t true. It’s a part of those people and it shapes every part of their lives, if you call yourself their friend it’s your job to listen to their experiences. This is the variation of transphobia that shows up as “I don’t see color” in discussions of racism