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opiniondataa — Rebuttal to that dumb argument I always see

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Published: 2020-01-18 21:46:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 704; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 4
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Description There's a fuck ton of stamps that say shit like
"MOGAI genders/pronouns make the trans community look like a joke"
"It/its pronouns make the trans community look like a joke!"
"Trans people breathing makes the trans community look like a joke"
And all I can say is yikes, sounds like internalized transphobia to me!

Almost every person who doesn't accept most/all genders/pronouns has a different idea of what is acceptable. Some say just he/him and she/her pronouns are allowed and being male or female. Some people say he, she, and they pronouns are allowed but only want male, female, and agender. Some people are okay with she, he, they, and it pronouns but only want male, female, agender, genderfluid, and bigender. And so on and so on. Basically, they had different views of what's "valid," but the problem is that with such varying answers, who knows? I mean, some people even view it/its pronouns as MOGAI pronouns. 

My point is, no one is ultimately "correct" at the end of the day, but I think calling certain identities the thing that's making the trans community "look bad" is a poor argument. Those people aren't trying to advocate for the loss of trans rights, transphobes are. Those people aren't trying to actively hurt and disown trans people, transphobes are. Those people aren't disowning trans kids and causing them to kill themselves, transphobes are. Transphobes do the damage to the trans community that the trans community fears, not someone going by ze/zir pronouns, for god's sake. Stop targeting people trying to live their lives and try to go after people actually damaging the community, PLEASE.
"But the people going by those pronouns are what causes transphobia!"
If someone is so bothered by someone going by MOGAI pronouns that they become full on transphobic, than they were probably not an ally to begin with and were likely already leaning towards being transphobic anyway and were just looking for an excuse.
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