In Praise of Shame

ciscentrismsucks:

dinokitten:

I always thought I was the only female bodied, male identified person in existence. Years after my transition began, I now notice they are popping up like rabbits. I doubt the legitimacy of most of them, especially when they ramble off a ton of irrelevant labels (boi, androgyne, genderqueer, genderfluid, genderfucked, bigender, third gender, cisgendered, pangender). It’s almost as if you’re mocking real transsexuals. It feels like you are invalidating everything I have struggled for. Stop it.

No. YOU stop it.

Who the fuck do you think you are? Who died and made you the identity police? What right have you to say that someone’s identity is “invalidating” anything, what right have you to “doubt”? You don’t get to say who’s “really” transgender and who isn’t, you self-obsessed jackass. (Oh, and also? Cisgender is the OPPOSITE of transgender. Someone labelling themself as cisgender PROBABLY ISN’T TRANS. Learn to research.)

So yeah. Guess I’m unfollowing trans-secrets, because I cannot follow something that would freely post something this hateful.

Commentary. Also, wtf, trans-secrets? I thought you were better than this.

Seriously. I thought that trans-secrets was made as a safe space for trans people so they could avoid the rampant trans-hate on other secrets blogs like queersecrets? Newsflash; trans people can also say really hateful things about other trans people who they see as being somehow different from themselves. (They can also say hateful things about trans people in general if they’re full of self-loathing.)

This secret is just full of binarism, too. Non-binary identities are “irrelevant”? Wow. That should be a PDD.