Telling trans people that they're valid or brave or inspiring completely unprompted.

Reducing street queens to legendary bricks at Stonewall while ignoring STAR House and the Compton's Cafe Riot. https://twitter.com/ProfessorGutian/status/1327371713617698816
Performative hyperfocus on the small number of trans murders while *ignoring* the wider scale sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence and domestic abuse, homelessness, lack of access to healthcare, arrests for carrying condoms, and general sexism towards trans people.
Giving money to cisgender run charities like mermaids because you trust them more than all the trans run organisations.
Special government registration processes which "allow" transsexuals to change our legal sex only through absurd and humiliating levels of scrutiny imposing extraordinary secondary costs just to put the evidence together.
Telling trans women "Welcome to Womanhood!" when we experience our 1st or our 30th incident of sexual harassment and trying to pass it off as solidarity and allyship.
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