Transphobia is silly
Today I was brushing my teeth in my school's bathroom and my biology professor from last semester came in. We said hi before she went into a stall and then chatted for a bit when she left. Then I realized: oh right, some people would have a problem with that because she's a transwoman in a women's bathroom. I don't think I can ever look at that anti-trans argument the same way. How petty do you have to be to care about any of this seriously?
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Ok so I understand all the other replies here. I know it's not just me but for me especially I dislike the thought of trans women using women bathrooms. Maybe it's because my brother is trans and now he literally goes in to the same restrooms as me which I still think is weird asf. And how my trans friend always points out my body and tries to get me to be comfortable with undressing when he's there like I am with my female friends. Idk guys sorry for offending, I just can't wrap my head around it.
You're fine, I'm not demanding everyone be confortable with it, but I do think you should try to look at it from the perspective a trans person. They also might feel uncomfortable and/or unsafe in the bathroom of the gender they don't identify as. Violence agaisnt LGBTQ people is as much of a problem as violence agaisnt women and other marginalized groups. What we're discussing is dangerous rhetoric used to depict all trans people as sexual predators and exclude them from public places
people often cling to things that give them some measure of power, or ability to cause harm to someone else. crab bucket mentality.
trans people living their truth are way less of a threat to me than cis people who want to control other people's lives.
Respectfully no. I believe that to a certain degree, transphobia is justified. I know that many want to believe that they really are the gender they transitioned into, but in truth they just aren't. At the end of the day all they did was hormone therapy and surgical operations, they'll never experience the pain and fear being a woman comes with. It genuinely is scary that someone who used to be a man can invade spaces that are supposed to make women feel comfortable and safe just because they altered themselves.
I don't believe in a universal "woman experience." You'll face different struggles depending on where and when you were born. The idea of being a woman has changed so much just in the last 30 years and will continue to evolve. Why does being a woman have to come with pain and fear? Is a woman who can't relate to that not a woman? Besides, trans people are something like four times more likely to be assaulted than cis people. Trust me, they understand the fear
exactly!