when people who are willingly ignorant turn around and say “we should all learn to live together”?? that’s not at all what they mean.
it’s always directed towards the ones that have been harmed.
and that’s something i’ve struggled with a lot in all areas - when previously in the marauders fandom, i dealt with a lot of people who disliked that i spoke about jkr so often and got hit with the “just let people have fun”. at work when i’m harrassed by bigots, i’m expected to respond kindly and pass it onto the higher ups where no action gets taken beyond “maybe you shouldn’t serve this person again”. when i got forcefully outted despite an abusive home situation and refused to have meetings with the teacher that did it, i was given detentions for being uncooperative. when i have to fight for basic medical support (not even transgender related, just basic medical support) i’m told to Calm Down and Trust The System. when i file a complaint about the way i’m treating by doctors, police, banks, bars, landlords, people on bathrooms, cashiers etc etc, i am Always told some kind of iteration of:
“we should all just learn to live together.”
to say that phrase whilst actively partaking in this project? an official HP project that JKR herself has said will help to fund her new anti-trans organisation? to say we should learn to live together, and then fund the woman who is fighting for us not to live?
what they really mean is:
“can you learn to suffer in silence?”
“can you stop bringing this up?”
“can you stop talking about this?”
what they mean, ultimately, is - “i am not directly affected by this and i do not wish to hear about it.”
a world without trans people have never existed and never will. we aren’t the ones that need to learn to live together. those that cannot accept the fact that we have always been here and cannot accept the fact that we will continue to be?
they’re the ones who need to learn to live together.
and it starts with being informed and firm in your morals. it starts with not fucking giggling when an interviewer asks about it and it starts with getting rid of this idea that being apolitical or neutral in the face of human rights is some kind of moral superiorty, some kind of peak of maturity that the rest of us just aren’t quite able to reach.
it starts with understanding that neutrality and complicity towards the eradiction of trans people is complicity. it starts with understanding that not choosing a side, is infact, choosing a side.
and of course, not choosing a side but willingly working with the frontrunner of the side that wants us dead? yeah, that’s definitely choosing a side.
the blame is not on trans people for being angry. it is ALWAYS shifted to us. we are always expected to be the perfect victims - quiet, polite, apologetic. even silly little “jokes” online when people turn around and say “when you misgender the wrong person and they go off on one”. or, being in a fandom and being constantly attacked for speaking about allyship.
people want the Perfect Trans Person - someone apologetic for existing and understanding of their struggles to accept us.
we aren’t the ones that need to learn to live together and i am so fucking tired of the constany framing of us as overdramatic or out of line for expecting people not to fund our deaths.
anyway. whatever. not really putting the Pride in pride and prejudice here keira but okay.
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