This community is housed on an instance run by two trans women, focused on the needs of the queer and gender diverse community.

We allowed 196 here because we were promised the community is queer and trans inclusive.

If you’re here it’s because you’re aggressively supportive of trans folk. Not middle of the ground, not “just asking questions”.

If your response to that is, “yes, but…” then this isn’t the instance for you, and by extension, this isn’t the community for you.

tl;dr - Unambiguous support and inclusion, or fuck off somewhere else.

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Edit - I changed the phrase "aggressive support to “unambiguous support”, as there was some confusion over the intent behind my previous phrasing.

  • nobodyEnglish
    23•2 years ago

    Personally, I don’t think about other people’s sexuality all that much, so I guess that makes me a non-aggressive supporter.

    It’s weird to impose this type of stuff, but I respect that this is your little space on the internet, so I’m leaving, as you asked. Thank you for the smiles and laughs.

      • nobody
        7•2 years ago

        That’s for the clarification! Like I said, I’m not super into this whole topic

    • @[email protected]English
      32•2 years ago

      “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s greatest stumbling block in his strike toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.’

      Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

      Not to equivocate trans and black liberation because they are very different, but do you think “aggressive” or “non aggressive” supporter of race rights better slots into the whites who demonstrated their unwillingness to go along with racism or the ones who were like “I don’t care about your race, I’m not a racist, but how dare you ask me to support you in any meaningful or visible way?”

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 years ago

        Btw, I don’y think “equivocate,” which comes from equivocal, means what you’re trying to say (that you do not wish to position the movements as 1-to-1 matches)

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          Thanks, I think you’re right! One of those words that somehow formed the wrong definition in my brain. TIL

      • nobodyEnglish
        13•2 years ago

        Good point! I do think it’s important to support trans rights, but I’d be a hypocrite if I said I AGGRESSIVELY support the cause. There’s just a lot going on in my life right now, I just want to keep a clear mind, is all.

        That being said, I never agree with or accept signs of transphobia.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 years ago

          Thanks for replying. I don’t know OPs intent when they said aggressively, but I can’t imagine your description not fitting into some reasonable definitions of allyship. Most people (even queer people) are not hauling themselves to every protest. Calling out transphobia as uncool when seen is as aggressive as anybody needs, imo. I wouldn’t get hung up on the wording.

          • Aesthesiaphilia
            8•2 years ago

            I don’t know OPs intent when they said aggressively

            MILITANT SHITPOSTING

            SEIZE THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION

        • AdaOPEnglish
          27•2 years ago

          What I mean by aggressively is, without caveats, without “but…”'s, without ambiguity. Your support needs to be clearly on the support side.

          You don’t need to be an activist. You don’t need to be out marching or even commenting on trans stuff, but your opinion on trans folks should be unambiguously on the “support” side of things.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•2 years ago

            Yeah. If someone is ever writing out “I’m an ally, but…” literally nothing good ever follows.

          • nobodyEnglish
            15•2 years ago

            Oh, that’s a much better description. I think I’ll stay for longer then, thank you!

      • Sage the LawyerEnglish
        20•2 years ago

        That’s a quote from his letter from Birmingham jail, right?

        While there are, of course, major differences in trans and black liberation, I read the full letter again recently and was shocked at how much of it was applicable to the current trans rights movement. I actually get the feeling that the two movements are more alike than they are different.

        History repeats itself. I highly encourage everyone to take a half hour and read the full letter. Maybe if everyone took his words to heart, we could avoid some of the bullshit this time around. The conservative playbook of oppression hasn’t changed much. It’s just focused on a different target this time.

    • TTH4PEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Aggressive support. I’m with ya.