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[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's actually infuriating to me when people imply that because I’m black and black people have the history of oppression that we have that I’m somehow obligated to play pretend for trans people.

People have told you that?? That sounds fucking infuriating. Was that people online or IRL?

edit: Also where I went to college, this was very much the messaging I heard, the "black trans lives matter" above all. I am not black and I have very little sense of black communities' opinions on the transgender movement; my college was very heavily TRA-dominated so I'm not sure how representative it was.

[–]loveSloaneSuperDuperBi 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’ve only had one black person say that to me, and it was online and she calls herself non-binary. I have had a few white people say it irl, but honestly, unless they are tq+ themselves, I don’t know any black people irl who speak like tras. I’m so glad I was born a generation before this stuff lol. I can’t imagine going to a college full of tras.

[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah gotcha, yeah that must be nice having more age peers who do not buy into transgender ideology. That is pretty awesome that relatively fewer non-TQ black people are pro-TRA. Unfortunately I know many white people IRL who are pro-trans and speak about it regularly, even though they are not TQ (although I kinda wonder how many are just doing it in a performative or virtue-signalling way, lol).

And yeah going to a college full of TRAs kinda sucked, haha. But I will say not everyone is brainwashed, a lot of people don't speak up about their concerns because they would get massively bullied online. I've seen it happen to a few of my former classmates, no joke.