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A shockingly pleasant experience confronting transphobia on birdsite Show more
The other day a friend shard her repsonse a tweet that was something about cis women being so different from trans women that sometimes "we" (cis women) "need a space just for us."
So I replied "I, a cis woman, can't think of ANY time I've EVER "needed a space just for us."
I want to share women's spaces with trans women, not transphobes. Transphobes make the world less safe; trans women don't."
A shockingly pleasant experience confronting transphobia on birdsite Show more
Now that tweet has a ton more likes and RTs than mine usually do (especially because I'm hardly on birdsite any more), and even better a ton of nice replies: other cis women vehemently agreeing, trans woman saying thank you, I even got a DM from a stranger thanking me, jokes (at transphobes' expense), kindness, minor misunderstandings being cleared up and apologized for. All so civil and supportive. It's been great.
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And, perhaps best of all, it took 24 hours for transphobes to turn up (that I can see anyway, I guess twitter is shadowbanning more of them now, which is awesome). Both of course predictable and boring and easily shooed away. Even the few tweets I made to them have likes and good replies now! Weird!
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@hollyamory "I guess twitter is shadowbanning more of them now, which is awesome" i'm going to guess that the more prolific ones, the first to reply, are getting marked as "maybe spam?"