this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
624 points (99.8% liked)

Trans Memes

1107 readers
5 users here now

A place to post memes relating to the transgender experience.

Rules

  1. Follow lemmy.blahaj.zone community guidelines.
  2. Posts must be trans related.
  3. No bigotry.
  4. Do not post or link to pornography.
  5. If a post is tagged with a specific gender identity, keep the conversation centered on that identity.
  6. Posts that assume the viewer’s gender and/or contain potentially triggering content must be spoilered and tagged at the beginning of the post title. Example content-warning tags that you can copy include the following:
  1. Mods can be arbitrary.

Recommendations

  1. Include other tags in posts for example:
  1. Include image description when possible.
  2. Link to source

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
BiNonBi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
0x2640@lemmy.blahaj.zone
624
[CW: transphobia] How can they not see this is what's coming‽ (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by hydroptic@sopuli.xyz to c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

~~Anybody know who the original author is?~~

Author: https://www.instagram.com/adamtots/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The majority of conservative cis LGB folk think that their version of queerness is ok, but other types are not. Anti trans LGB folk are one version of this

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That’s awful. Just enough acceptance for them, and fuck everyone else. It must take a complete lack of empathy.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You see it even more often if you're otherkin.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I’m sure. People listen to me because I’m a straight white man, whether I deserve their attention or not, so I leverage that to support people who are oppressed.

I speak out against hate of every kind. I ask questions like this because it’s important to know where it comes from to determine the appropriate response. This I didn’t see or expect, but it makes sense now that it’s been described. I appreciate the explanation.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Often it's fear. They think if they're a perfect, respectable minority, they can appeal to the kindness of queerphobes and win rights through sympathy. Sometimes it's even trauma. Gay guy is used to being called a girl for his gayness, and is triggered to see a trans woman willingly taking that on. Or trans person is used to hearing helicopter copypastas and thinks otherkin are conservative trolls. In both cases, they're used to being attacked with the idea of more marginalised queers, and think they can switch sides to the oppressor's corner if they disavow the smaller minority

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s incredibly enlightening. You’re very insightful. Thank you.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you. If you really want to do a lot for minorities, become a soulist. http://soulism.net

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We’re not free until we’re all free. People won’t have any rights if they only fight for their own.

Soulism is for the liberation of gay, bisexual, asexual, trans, nonbinary, intersex, and every other queer identity. Soulism is for justice, sovereignty, and flourishing of black, indigenous, multiracial, immigrant, and global-south communities. Soulism is for additional options for divergent, disabled, disordered, and ill persons in either a recovery of their own will, or a life of their own choosing. Soulism is for the recognition and acceptance of otherkin, plural systems, and members of new religious movements and cults. Implementation of soulist ideas, including the ideas shared by the broader spectrum of anarchist thinking, will help everyone by giving everyone freedom of life and reality, but those most disadvantaged will most benefit.

Thanks for this!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

It must take a complete lack of empathy.

That was already stated. "Conservative" cis LGB folk.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never met one of these people... I feel like they must be a monitority of the minority, right?

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure where you live, but I've definitely encountered them in my extremely conservative state. Even here, they're a small group though.

Even being a small group, I feel like it's still a problem because hate groups like the Republican Party can parade them around when convenient (until they are no longer useful -- then see comic in post).

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Can confirm, trans-exclusionary gay/bi people are fucking everywhere in (rural) Georgia in the US. I think the ones who are out who are "anti-trans" outnumber the normal ones.