hey gang. i know we’re all freaking out right now but maybe let’s not encourage people to detrans when nothing has materially changed between now and a few days ago. things will get scary in the coming years but thats always true! that’s how history works. the way certain (white queer tumblr users) people talk about it is like, very objectively like definitionally catastrophizing.
i think so many people on here act like the world is ending because they live in coastal metropolitan liberal areas and were too young for politics to be real 8 years ago. me and all my friends in the south and midwest all watched transphobic bills creeping across the nation until they reached our cities for the better part of a year in 2022-3. maybe you live somewhere that wasn’t an issue, but for those of us who did, you sound a little sheltered to imply that trans people being vulnerable is somehow uncharted territory and we need to concede everything to survive it. trans people have never been protected in america.
but this is probably overthinking it in the case of this post. if you’re telling people “it’s ok” to detrans/etc in a world where that’s the approved messaging of the systems of power, it’s not because you’re a privileged lib, it’s because you’re a transphobe lol