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See also this community's sister subs Feminism, Neurodivergence, Disability, and POC

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

You say that

People need to be educated, and you're not going to change their minds by becoming hostile.

Is a bad take, but then your follow up explanation doesn't really go into detail about the sentiment behind this statement and reads completely off topic. Do you really think hostility is necessary to educate? Like when responding to an ignorant comment, are you yelling at them? As irrational as some phobics are, I agree you're not going to change their minds by flying off the handle and yelling at them or using hostile language. Not only do many people of all opinions respond poorly to that, the ones making bad faith arguments want you to get pissed and make you look irrational. Don't fucking let them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bad take. I don't want it to be up to me as a trans person to educate anyone anymore. And if they're bad faith ban them lmao.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Bad take. I don't want it to be up to me as a trans person to educate anyone anymore.

No, this is a bad take. You're in the best possible position to educate people about your own thoughts, feelings, and what it is like being trans. Your voice can make changes that would help other trans people. If everyone shared this attitude, the only people educating others about trans would be non-trans people who have no idea what it's like to be trans.

If they truly are in bad faith, you would still have to engage them beyond reading one question to know that for sure, and this side of the LGBTQA+ community has a really bad habit of immediately being triggered by pretty much any questions about trans topics, regardless of how they are presented or by whom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

oh my god if educating transphobes was our job we'd never have time to do anything else

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