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thenewgreen · 4642 days ago · link · · parent · post: Things I’m Expected To Do for Cis People in Return for Their Not Hating Me: An Angry List
Yes! I can cross that off my list ;-)
I think that the whole "knowing someone" thing is invaluable. Many of the prejudices and bigotry in the world stem from fear of the unknown. -Not justifying it, just saying. For example, I have no idea if transgender, transexual, tran etc is the sensitive way to refer to this? No idea. Does that make me ignorant? Probably. But I'm a product of my experiences. Some of the examples in the post might be caused by a lack of experience rather than malicious intent. In which case, unfortunately patience on both sides is the only solution. It's going to take time for people to get to know the transgender people in their community and realize that like all of us, they're just humans. That said, glad to meet you :-)
Glad to meet you too, trans, transgender, transsexual are not offensive terms but they do have specific meanings. Offensive terms are ones often used in porn and i don't feel like repeating them as im sure you can figure out what they are and ive had to hear them said to me far too many times on reddit.