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What Twitter sees: a trans person "overreacting" to one person who misgenders them online
What Twitter doesn't see: a trans person being deadnamed and misgendered by their doctor, their pharmacy, their family, their coworkers, people online, and sometimes even their friends
What Twitter doesn't see: a trans person being deadnamed and misgendered by their doctor, their pharmacy, their family, their coworkers, people online, and sometimes even their friends
That "overreaction" may be a natural response to being disrespected for 8-16 hours a day, every day.
People make mistakes, and trans people are some of the first to admit that, but it doesn’t detract from how exhausting it is to be the object of those mistakes day in and day out.
(I was deadnamed 4 times this week by family and doctors and misgendered within earshot 3 times just by my coworkers so remember that next time a trans person gets mad about their gender)
You are not special. We do not get angry at you for misgendering us because *you* misgendered us. We are angry because you are just another in a long line of disrespect and "accidental" injury
We don’t want apologies for being misgendered, we want you to stop fucking misgendering us.
While our COUNTRY keeps arguing about whether or not we even deserve to use a bathroom y'all are like "she -- oops they -- haha sorry about that" and it honestly makes me want to punch you in the face sometimes 
Being misgendered isn't a small mistake when over 30 trans people (most also people of color) have been killed just for existing in 2020 already
Keep track with us. https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020
Accepting someone's trans identity isn't going to happen overnight. You need to be actively aware of how you judge and think about people and gender in general before you can begin to truly accept a trans person for who they are in that moment, because not all of us "pass"
I have breasts and you know why? Because I can’t afford top surgery and the rib pressure from binders can sometimes trigger my anxiety.
But the existence of breasts doesn’t mean I'm a woman and it doesn’t mean that I'm not a trans person deserving of respect until they vanish
But the existence of breasts doesn’t mean I'm a woman and it doesn’t mean that I'm not a trans person deserving of respect until they vanish
Until you can look at someone with breasts or a beard and not automatically assume they're a woman or a man, you aren't ready to respect trans people.
And honestly, whenever someone gets super defensive when they misgender us we file that name into a small folder in our minds that say "Possibly Against Puberty Blockers" or "Possibly Weird About Bathrooms"
