Oliver Meow
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

uh…..what?

First of all, supporting creative content by trans people increases their income and acts as another means of support for people that are dehumanized by the entire government. It’s really not that hard. You can switch it up and spend the time you use watching the Big Bang Theory and try something new for once. Trans people are perfectly good at creating interesting content, y’all. Also, since transphobia is SYSTEMIC — which you would know if you listened to trans people talking about their plight — you can support them in a larger scale by supporting their COMMUNITY.

And second of all, speaking of listening to trans people…

See, what *I* don’t understand is how allies try to make it so that they are the ones with the jurisdiction on what allies should or should not do for marginalized peoples. Like you do realize, that if you’re making some sort of attempt to vouch for trans people and their rights, that you are doing a service FOR them, right?
Obviously you do since you’re acting as if it’s such a generous and uncalled for favor on your part that IF some trans person vocalizes how it hurts them, you have every right to revoke any support you have in the community.
If you claim to support any marginalized group, a group that is clearly MORE marginalized than the group in which you are a part of, then here’s what you should do:

LISTEN to the marginalized person on what is hurting them in your allyship and HOW you can do better.

It’s a sad sight to see people act like their allyship is some profound favor or gift or whatever that if marginalized people don’t express the most gratitute then you can revoke it and they can suffer by themselves. Helping people more marginalized than ourselves is a duty, it’s something we SHOULD be doing, not some extra activity to showcase how much of a good person we are.

I find it somewhat disturbing but not at all surprising that people would be so open to letting trans individuals flounder in the violent discrimination that takes place worldwide towards trans people if an individual is being open about how you’re hurting them. You’re placing your feelings and your comfort over the potential safety (or lack thereof) of trans people. If that’s what you call allyship, fine.

Also, P.S.: if you will only dish out “equality” for trans people and regard their humanity when they kowtow to you and kiss your ass and thank you profusely for not being a transphobic dick to them, chances are you never cared for their humanity in the first place. Trans people are deserving of respect in this country REGARDLESS of how rude they are.

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