The transphobic lie that trans women want to coerce cis lesbians into dating them makes me so angry. Most trans women are deathly afraid of coming across as predatory in any way whatsoever because of this.
There's occasionally that kind of posts on AITA or /r/relationships too btw, like 'a trans woman accused me, a cis lesbian, of being transphobic when I didn't want to go out with her!' GC false flags, a kind of malicious astroturfing.
Trans women: if I breathe near a cis woman will she think I'm a predator
GCs: *invent batshit stories that never happened*
There's an insidious... thing that creeps up whenever these discussions come up, like someone would qualify these with 'of course trans women who are abusive exist, but...' I don't think that contributes anything useful.
It implies ALL trans women--literally every single one alive--must behave perfectly in order for their entire demographic to deserve respect, which is just respectability politics, and irrelevant.
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