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Gender reveal parties aren't some ancient tradition. They're a few years old. They're part of the conservative backlash against the increased visibility and tolerance of trans people. They're not "just an excuse for more gifts". They're inherently oppressive and violent.
Gender reveal parties are an act of violence against trans people. They're performances meant to loudly declare one's side in the culture war, signals to any trans or gender-nonconforming people in those families that they better keep it to themselves.
You don't hold a gender-reveal party just to squeeze more gifts out of your friends and family. You do it to announce to your whole family, your whole community, "There are only two genders in THIS house!" That's why there's usually pyrotechnics. They're an act of intimidation.
"I'm trying not to be transphobic" would be a perfectly valid and admirable statement. "I'm not transphobic" is presumptuous. 1) That's not for you to decide. 2) Bigotry isn't something you are, it's something you do. https://twitter.com/akaPorto/status/1303325767259099136
My least favorite genre of reply to this thread was the Appeal To Respectability Politics.
"Aren't you worried that you'll scare away the moderates who probably won't side with you anyway?"
No.
You seem to have me confused with the Democratic party. https://twitter.com/carrchr/status/1303349216933183494
"Aren't you worried that you'll scare away the moderates who probably won't side with you anyway?"
No.
You seem to have me confused with the Democratic party. https://twitter.com/carrchr/status/1303349216933183494
My 2nd least favorite genre of reply was people assuming I didn't know the context around the original party, as if the woman who threw it hasn't already explicitly acknowledged her own complicity in exactly what I'm talking about. https://twitter.com/celeste_praline/status/1303341132898684928
"Traditions" Oh come on. I have shirts hanging in my closet that are older than the "tradition" of gender reveal parties. https://twitter.com/sendero_dorado/status/1303319592484438016
Yes of course I do but that's irrelevant to this conversation https://twitter.com/berryfarm5r/status/1303359672787906562
Hope she sees this bro https://twitter.com/epicvoicebrony/status/1303468978744864768
