This post is inspired by a recent user I interacted with accusing me of being transphobic due to disagreeing with the concept of “xenogenders”
Without going too in depth, this user identified as “swarmgender”, and believed they are part of a literal hive mind. This led me down a path of reflection, wanting to be accepting of someones identity while trying to understand it rationally, and I came to a pretty firm conclusion:
They’re fucking nuts.
I’m not saying this in a transphobic sense, there is nothing wrong with being trans. (Original statement: But the medical terminology for what’s being experienced is gender dysphoria. It’s a mental illness.) It was pointed out to me by a commenter that this statement is inaccurate as of the updated DSM-5 definition, which sorta complicates my view here but doesn’t subtract from the overall point.
It’s important to acknowledge this because there’s a bit of a slippery slope going on where individuals with more severe mental issues are using gender politics to either
A: make themselves the bestest most specialist snowflake
Or
B: Obfuscate how fucking insane they actually are under the guise of anyone disagreeing being transphobic.
Anyway, this thread’ll be fun
Edit: the aforementioned Swarmgender joker has started posting about people in this thread on their own little community dedicated to how much of a victim they are lol
I do care, I did use the wrong word tho- mybad
And I would also agree they aren’t really related to the person whom I’m describing. However, they would likely disagree vehemently and say we are transphobic.
It’s all very confusing
We?
idk this person, and I only know what you have written about them. There might be a lot more nuance, or not. But this post is not nuanced, probably too hastly written, without thinking twice about what you wrote and you do not seem to have the intentions you suggest you have. I can’t believe you wrote this because you want to “save the trans community from crazy fakers” or whatever.
What the fuck are you talking about? Im not trying to save anyone from anything lol
I assumed that. There is the idea to exclude groups from the trans community to make the community not look worse (to cishets) and to not waste time helping the other groups. I.e. saving the trans community at least effort. I assumed that is your (at least suggested) reason. But instead you don’t care about trans people (maybe neither in a good or bad was) and just don’t want people like the person you described to be helped by anyone. Or you even don’t want them to exist at all. Is this assumption correct?
Also some people are crazy, big deal
Pretty sure OP just doesn’t want to tread on glass around a person with borderline personality disorder to avoid being called transphobic, which sounds fair to me.
you sound like you’re creating your own narrative here. the OP said nothing like this whatsoever.
They’ve been polite and respectful in the thread. Relax.