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Jan. 16th, 2026 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariSomewhat caricatured because I’m too annoyed to represent it charitably:
A: [Something about how “TME” is a bad term]
B: You’re transphobic and don’t understand what it’s like to be a trans woman.
A: I’m a trans woman.
B: You’re a transphobic trans woman and that’s why trans women hate you.
There’s a lot more going on there, like B accusing A of being a Gamergater, but I think that’s the thrust of it.
What frustrates me is that it doesn’t seem like there’s a point where you could get B to evaluate A’s statement as an opinion rather than as a weapon of the enemy. You could find other trans women who agree with A, and you could find trans women who agree more with B but think A is just wrong rather than bigoted. But no matter how many you find, B could just keep saying all of them are transphobic and declare victory.
A: [Something about how “TME” is a bad term]
B: You’re transphobic and don’t understand what it’s like to be a trans woman.
A: I’m a trans woman.
B: You’re a transphobic trans woman and that’s why trans women hate you.
There’s a lot more going on there, like B accusing A of being a Gamergater, but I think that’s the thrust of it.
What frustrates me is that it doesn’t seem like there’s a point where you could get B to evaluate A’s statement as an opinion rather than as a weapon of the enemy. You could find other trans women who agree with A, and you could find trans women who agree more with B but think A is just wrong rather than bigoted. But no matter how many you find, B could just keep saying all of them are transphobic and declare victory.
