#transpeopleexist

[heartmilheart]

Why is homophobia/transphobia so normalized these days?

◉ Gay is used a lot as an insult. I've heard a ten year old boy say it to his sister and she was like "Noo!! I'm not gay!!" like it was such a bad thing, like he just told her that she just did something so bad like kill someone. I don't blame him for thinking like this, that's what he sees on the internet and probably at home. Their father is a "that's how life is, you have to adapt" kind of guy (the father actually said that when we were talking about the whole Trump situation and Palestine btw)

The other day I was walking to get the bus: all of a sudden I hear the f slur, said as a joke. I don't remember the whole sentence, the guy probably said it to his friend.

I can't understand how people don't get that is so wrong.

◉ "Being lgbtq+ is a choice!" Why would we choose to be discriminated against? Why would we choose to be oppressed? If it was that simple, I wouldn't be writing this, I wouldn't be lgbtq+, I wouldn't choose to be different from most people.

◉ "Pride Month is so unnecessary" Lgbtq+ have been discriminated against for so long. It used to be illegal everywhere and now it's still illegal in some places.

◉ "But why can't they just keep it for themselves?"

◈ Let's say you liked pizza but liking pizza was prohibited but you don't like pasta (the one you're "supposed to" like), you never will, you only like pizza, you suffer because you can't have it. Wouldn't it be better to be able to like pizza and eat pizza rather than suffer in silence?

◈ Or let's say you are born and you are told you are supposed to have an haircut for the rest of your life, but you don't like that haircut. You see other people that have the other haircut, you think how much it would fit and how much you feel like yourself with that haircut. But you can't have the one you want because people find it wrong and disgusting to want to change haircuts. However, you would love to change it because if you don't, you suffer. Wouldn't it be better to rebel rather than suffer in silence?

◉ "LGB without TQ+" Trans people fought for your rights too. And it's not like Conservatives will side with you because you cut out Trans&co people, they'll come for you next. They're not your friends and never will.

◉ Homophobia and transphobia are just as bad racism and ableism. That's also why any minority that hates on another minority is stupid: they know how it is to be discriminated against yet they discriminate against another minority. So stupid.

I think I've said everything I had to.

Heartmilheart out 👋

(PS: Happy Pride Month)

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[kirkwallschamp]

Twice. This is a not so friendly reminder. If you start spouting bull crap about how hypothetically the armed forces couldn't pay for meds then you are squaring up with me, here and now. #imdone #transpeoplematter #transpeopleexist

[uhu-glues]

Trump:I do not think black people exist

*finds out his Mc'N'Cheese lacks of cheese*

I don't think McDonald's exists neither.

*Finds out all America hates him*

What is America? There are only three continents, Oceania, France and Kim Jong Un.

[thichcurvycutie]

I don’t understand why people chose to be so hateful. Yet this isn’t about them, it’s about our fellow human being treated as their life isn’t as valuable as another. Everyone matters, no one person, group deserves more than another we are all equals. #standwithyou #transrightsarehumanrights #transpeoplewillnotbeerased #transpeoplematter #transpeopleexist #transpeoplearevalid #weareallhuman https://www.instagram.com/p/BpR2DsQnjXVbYhGYA0eiwkWmdpVWv2wUdV4Xaw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kahm0er9g2ve

[elliotfinn-b-blog]

lil bald boy going through yet another 'what is my life' crisis #ftm #transboy #ftmtransgender #transpeopleexist #transpeoplematter #pretestosterone

[elliotfinn-b-blog]

CAPTION: OPEN THE PHOTOS ABOVE AND READ IN ORDER, FIRST TO LAST. They are screenshots of a status I originally posted on fb.

Feel free to share… A bright light in a dark time can do wonders to a person’s well being and I sincerely hope my words here can help, at least a little.

Cw - Australian marriage equality survey, homophobia, transphobia, hate/exclusion toward lgbtqia community.

[elliotfinn-b-blog]

Regarding the current Australian marriage equality survey.

cw - Australian marriage equality survey, homophobia, transphobia

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I wonder if all these people (politicians, journalists, the public etc) that are spewing out comments saying that we in the lgbtqia+ community are apparently trying to infringe upon the heterosexual community's rights.. that we apparently have some kind of agenda to take over the country and force homosexuality upon all... I really wonder if any of these people actually realise that we who identify as having either sexual or gender variations that are deemed to not be the 'norm', are the ones who's rights are being attacked and infringed upon. We live a life that is a constant battle for equality and acceptance. We live a life of constant hate, ignorance and exclusion being forced upon us. We are the ones who are affected by the marriage equality survey. The only ones. Any one that is not a part of the lgbtqia+ community IS NOT AFFECTED BY IT. AT ALL. NOT ONE BIT. Through this survey, you are the ones that are literally having a say in regards to if we deserve a human right that you have always had access to. Actually you don't just get to have a say about said human right, but you also get to negatively comment on our want for a that human right, while also judging and attacking who we are and our existence as human beings. I am so done with people going on about things that are not even the issue at hand. Done with people bringing in outside arguments because they cannot actually come up with a proper reason to be voting no. Done with people trying to make us out to be some kind of evil cult of people trying to alter your life and force our sexuality or gender identities onto you. I mean, come on..really? Get over yourself. Honestly, I don't believe any of us would ever want to force homosexuality onto you (not that it is even something that we can force onto you) because really, I know I sure as hell don't want to be affiliated with people who cannot grasp the simple concept that the lgbtqia+ community deserve equality and the same human rights afforded to all others. There are people in every community, every society, every religion, people every where with any belief system or identity, who will use negativity and hatred. Who will attacks others. So just because there may be some who identify as lgbtqia+ fighting back with harsh or cruel comments toward you, does not mean that we all would do so. Plus, If you spout hate toward someone in regards to the marriage survey or lgbtqia+ community, and they come back at you calling you a homophobe, a bigot, whatever - they are not being cruel and attacking you. THEY ARE SIMPLY POINTING OUT THE TRUTH. if you act out using homophobic slurs and comments, you are a homophobe and it is you who is being cruel. Simple. This is all just another example of the concept of if you've not lived it yourself, you won't ever fully understand what it is like. You cannot put yourself into our shoes, you cannot see what it is really like to exist in our society as a person who identifies as lgbtqia+. Yes you can be an ally, and you can have empathy toward our experiences, you can fight our fight with and for us. But really, unless you have lived our life, I just won't ever believe that you have, or should have, the right to comment on or have a say on our lives and rights.