I'm trans and I feel this entire thing is a tad silly. Transphobia means 'A fear or hatred of transgender people', and the CDPR comment is neither fearful or hateful. It's a derpy meme/comment and nothing else. There's no malice to it. I mean sure, some people use it as a means to be offensive, but it's certainly not the majority. And it's certainly not how I perceive CDPR to have used it. I think people should just calm down. There's no point raging over such harmless comments. Honestly, getting so outraged just hurts trans people like me. So many folks are just rolling their eyes at this anger, and it reflects poorly on people struggling with their gender identity. It just makes us look weak. According to polls, the acceptance of LGBT folk is going down, and while it's easy to blame it on the current administration, there needs to be some self reflection to see that this stuff isn't helping. People are just exhausted by the outrage of the week, especially in cases where what's creating the anger is far from being 'that' bad. This stuff pushes people away from our cause to find acceptance. It's just making us look like whiny and emotionally unhinged individuals. And making us look weak is not what we should be doing. Save the rage for things that are actually hurtful/harmful.
Hello, my name is platy, I am also trans and you have ... issues.
Focusing on the dictionary definition of transphobia is not only a transphobic 101 tactic but also stupid if you as a trans person probably knows that lots of shitty things that happens to people who are trans (or at least not insanely privileged people) cannot be exactly define as fear or hatred. Disgust, bad information, a simple "not believing our identity is real because religion". Neither of these enter the "hatred" or fear and yet, are SUPER in the transphobia umbrella.
The majority of people use it as malice against us. You might think you are "not like the other girls" but they are still thinking about you the same way they think about me when they think it is hilarious to joke about how some people wanted to use diferent pronoums.
YOUR EXISTENCE hurts trans people like you. For those people, trans people EXISTING hurts trans people like you.
The same people who rolls their eyes in anger is the same that rolled to Kaytlin Jenner and will roll to EVERY OTHER TRANS PEOPLE, don't matter how Joane Crow she or you look to them.
Language is important. People have to understand that. And by people I include you on it because I saw that you support lots of things that goes 100% against us in your twitter. The "things that are actually harmfull hurtfull" kind
Brain scans of trans folk show differences much more in line with the gender they identify as. Depending on a person's identity some of these differences are a thinner subcortical area, thinner cortical regions in the right hemisphere, and a larger/smaller hypothalamus.
Often transgendered people use the expression a "man trapped in a woman's body" (and vice-versa) and in many ways that's true. But sadly we don't have the body of the gender we identify as and with that comes limitations.
If you are implying trans women have a mental illness than this quote only implies that ALL WOMEN have a mental illness. But having a healthy brain is not a mental illness, no matter what body it is in.
