The reason for that is because you hold transphobic viewpoints. If you support transgender identities but not transracial identities then you are being hypocritical. I’m sure you realize that. I expected better from a supposedly progressive social network.
Yeah, I can see why the Fediverse grows more and more controversial by the day.
And let the people who have publicly professed their transphobia win? Not so.
It wasn’t bait, it was me writing about my friend standing up for trans identities, both transgender and transracial since both are equally as valid. You seem pretty transphobic to me.
Transracial identities are only controversial to transphobes, though.
I’ll look into it. Thanks.
I didn’t expect as many transphobes to brigade my post, that is for certain.
If you consider a person saying transracial identities are valid is “bad-faith” then how is that not you being transphobic? Perhaps the mods of this community may not take kindly to transphobia.
It’s a good thing I wasn’t attempting to troll, now, wasn’t it? The impression I’m getting here is that so-called “allies” aren’t as accepting as they like to portray themselves as, and suffer from hypocrisy.
You say that like there aren’t people brand new to an instance or community making their first post which gets upvoted. You say it was controversial, but that’s like saying transgender identities are controversial because transphobes find it controversial. Like with transgender the only people who find transracial identities controversial are de facto transphobes.
So if someone talks about a person identifying as another gender besides the one assigned to them at birth, it’s “valid” and not “trolling”, in your eyes, but if a post involves a person talking about a person identifying as another race besides the one assigned to them at birth, it’s “Invalid” and “trolling”? How so? Transracial identities are just as valid as transgender identities (both are valid).
My takeaway from this is that many people who otherwise consider themselves as allies to the trans community are hypocritical and in essence transphobic when it comes to transracial identities.
It’s just that I got the impression that Lemmy is generally trans-friendly, and the post was in the Offmychest community on .world. It is Pride Month after all, so I figured with all the support my friend has offered to trans identities lately, and stood up for them despite the harsh backlash she has received online as a result of that, the post would’ve been more well-received. To me it is very scary that people would see a post praising and validating trans identities and immediately downvote it and proverbially shit on it, and only getting radio silence or insults when I politely ask them to explain why they didn’t like my post.
The clue is in the name. Transracial. If you don’t believe that transracial identities are valid, then how is that not transphobia?
And my friend’s situation is very much real. It’s something she’s had to deal with since she was young. She is in her late 20’s now and since she has friends who support her identity, her wellbeing has been much better. I used to think transracial identities were invalid when I was younger, but after actually looking into it and having a friend who is transracial, I realized my presumptions were wrong. Transracial people struggle with self-love just like transgender people do, so what’s wrong with making people feel more comfortable in themselves? Nothing, that’s what. Nobody can come up with any good arguments. Instead they resort to ad-hominem after ad-hominem, which should tell you more about them than it does me and her.