okay can we have a serious talk real quick??
While I wholly appreciate the sentiment behind "protect the dolls," it's seriously dehumanizing.
It puts forth the notion that trans women are dolls, 'things' that play pretend. It's like insinuating they aren't real women.
It's also objectifying in that sense. Not all trans women want to be 'dolls' and simplifying them into that label, as 'dolls,' or 'toys' is such objectification.
Not only that, but the term of being a doll is a huge kink thing for trans women, so by calling them dolls it often reduces them to their 'porn category,' which is also dehumanizing and objectifying.
Again, while I appreciate the sentiment behind it, every time I hear that sentence, it just reminds me that we still aren't seen as people.
