Stop Asking Trans People to Absolve You For Your Problematic Faves
Mar 20, 2022
As a trans person who has watched the escalation of Joanne's behavior go from "I had a clumsy and middle-aged moment" and liked a transphobic tweet to unabashedly holding trans women en masse responsible for something a cisgender man did to her and advocating for a loss of rights and safety in spaces, I don't want another cisgender person to ask me if they can still like Harry Potter. 1. Don't bother me with demands your own conscience has tasked you with, 2. I'm not the speaker of the trans people, 3. I'm not going to give you permission or cleanse your conscience when her transphobia and the laws she supports aren't a deal-breaker for you, 4. this framing is actually dangerous for trans people because it reinforces the idea that we have the power to stop you when we don't.
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Yeah sometimes people, even fellow queer folk, lose sight of what is most important in trans advocacy, which is real life legislation and actions. But maybe it feels easier to be able to control what you watch or support/ buy from, than real world advocacy, since that can be scary or even dangerous. I figure that I just won't give money or views/streams to lgbtq phobic organizations or people, but as long as we acknowledge that it's shitty, (death of the author and all that) people can be fans without too much guilt. Or maybe by advocating for trans rights and representation and respect from the inside of fandoms social change and minds can be changed. Idk
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