Internet Drama Is DESTROYING The Left [Contrapoints]
It's Time To STOP Cannibalizing Ourselves What Contra Said: First tweet; Sometimes it's funny when you're the only trans person in a space where everyone is announcing their pronouns. Like it gets to you and a hush falls over the room and you can just like check your phone because cis* people need to be working on their pronouns game. This has happened to me before in hyper woke spaces. Like it's me and a bunch of cis women and we all have to go in a circle saying "she/her" because I'm there. I guess it's good for people who use they/them only and want only gender-neutral language. But it comes at the minor expense of semi-passable trans like me and that's super fucking hard for us. Second Tweet; y'all whore mad about this thread - I'm not saying we shouldn't have a norm of disclosing pronouns in trans positive spaces, and I'm happy [to] give up having my gender assumed to help NB*/non-passing trans people. But why can't I at least acknowledge this hurts more than helps me? Not
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