@cantinto Hmm? How do you mean?
transphobia
https://mstdn.io/@katie/104502695291144910
re: transphobia
@cantinto Is that really transphobic? It just seems #gendercritical to me.
I've seen #Spinster posts, I promise you I'm no great hater or fearer (?) of trans people. I actually joined another user last year (IIRC) in condemning a bunch of users who were trolling and bullying a trans user because of her looks.
@cantinto Trans people are cool, I just don't think that anything other than your sex chromosomes determine whether someone is male or female. But if people disagree with me that's fine, I'm always happy to agree to disagree. The only real problems come when people aren't willing to do the same and decide to call me names, tbh.
@realcaseyrollins @cantinto That’s called a dodge, Mr Rollins. You can make a stand and accept the consequences, or sit and avoid them, but you can’t stand and avoid the consequences.
If you decide that you are going to dismiss people like myself — calling us crossdressers, or mis-gendering us, dismissing us as delusional, or whatever it is when you ignore the research on transsexual peoples brains and how they end up like this — then don’t be surprised when we take a dim view of you. To expect otherwise is simply moral cowardice and not a mote less.
Its always disappointing to find someone you liked, would relegate you to the circus — and that’s precisely what you are doing. But I’m not a clown.
@realcaseyrollins @cantinto Alright, but you’d need to explain this, because it seems straightforward to me.
“I just don’t think that anything other than your sex chromosomes determine whether someone is male or female.”
Well apparently I understood you perfectly clear then and rereading wasn’t necessary — and the request to do so utterly superfluous. I’m not sure what the point of that exercise was.
Because frankly, if someone believes I’m just some delusional crossdresser then none of those experiences were authentic.
I had believed that we had interacted in good faith — and I choose that word with precision — but privately you were of the opinion that I’m some kind of deviant or deranged person.
Would you continue to interact with someone who held that opinion about you? Doubtful, its highly insulting and more than a little degrading. Neither is the kind of thing I am obliged to put up with.
Do not act as if I am the prime mover of this, you made your choices, the consequences belong to you.
