[ SECRET POST #2731 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2731 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not going to say that trans culture on tumblr isn't kind of bad because yeah, it's mostly kids who are (understandably) angry and don't really know what to do with that anger. They're generally not focused and pretty impotent and can act really stupid sometimes.

But really -- you're putting the scum in truscum here, friend. Let people go through their own shit in life and figure themselves out. It's not your responsibility to say who is and isn't trans. I know it sucks when people tell us we're all crazy because of the less than one percent who do detransition or because of some of the super out there stuff from tumblr, but really, you're aiming at the wrong targets here. If you're worried about them making us "look bad", you should be mad at people who choose to point at them to invalidate us instead. It's good for people to explore like this, and well -- the fact that so few people actually DO detransition tells me, at least, that most people who aren't trans and toy with the identity can figure that out for themselves. I know some people are pretty out there, but it's not hard to just roll your eyes and leave things well enough alone. They're just trying to figure themselves out.

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NAYRT

I've often considered this, actually. But I think the problem isn't the fact they are trying to figure themselves out and inventing new labels to do it, in itself there's not a problem with that.

It's more that along the way, they spread so much hatred (against truscum and cishets mostly), in their culture bullying and telling people to go kill themselves (sometimes just over existing) is a normal, accepted thing. That is what makes this Tumblr thing so poisonous, and dangerous.

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AYRT

I don't disagree. But like I said, they're misguided kids who are really angry (I know and understand the feelings this is coming from, and I am absolutely sympathetic to it) and don't know what to do with it, and tumblr is an echo chamber. It's not so much an issue with tumblr trans culture, but with people in their early/mid teens in general, with tumblr exacerbating it.

I will go ahead and just say if my comment before didn't make it clear, I pretty much have zero respect for truscum ideology. It's not anyone's responsibility to decide who is and isn't trans -- but most importantly, it supports the existing gatekeeping structures which still DO harm actual trans people, and that kind of makes it super misguided at best and just straight up destructive at worst. So while there are totally cishet people who are great and have done nothing to harm any of us, truscum ARE harmful, period. Nobody deserves to be told to kill themselves or anything like that at all, but they're not doing anyone any good either. I could say more but that's the most important part.

I don't know why I'm even putting so much effort into this conversation though because I'm defending trans culture and, even though it is my community, I kind of think it's broken anyways (Tumblr too!). Just... not for these reasons.