divinity on earth is trans women

im not interested in persecuting ppl or harassing trans women over it, i dont participate in callouts or any of that shit i understand how these things are used to hurt my transfem siblings and i understand how certain mindsets make the world less safe for victims

and its kind of glaring how its so normalized that half the shit on the front page of pornhub will be step-relative shit made for cis ppl but trans women get burned at the stake for it

i say allowed of course one is allowed to do anything but like, i dont think its unreasonable for my to be uncomfortable with this kinda thing

again i dont participate in stalking or harassing my sisters and siblings over this because of course i fucking don't and I dont think i ever have

I essentially had to investigate to figure out what happened here after seeing nothing but replies to a now-deleted tweet of trans women i follow shading anecdotal stories about how trans men helped them in the past with shaming comments like "you could never make me hate our brothers"

eventually i saw a vague post about it and looked into the replies, somebody asked for context and the only reply to that said "the blue lady went transphobic." which was odd to me, seeing as how i primarily knew her from being trans!

the fact that i couldn't find additional context aside from this was pretty terrifying, all i could find was "she has a bigoted crash out" without anyone actually elaborating

the rest of the day all i could find were posts from prominent trans women (notably all white and relatively well-off, as they so often are) talking about how they love and support trans men, replies condemning division and "hating on oppressed groups of any kind right now"

the worst of it though was seeing people already speculating on her mental state- "a person trying to tattoo themselves blue was kinda insane?" (notably of course also degendering her). it's the tried and true way to cast aside women, to call them insane and write them off

and of course anybody pointing out the harassment of an abuse victim being fucked up is met with the old "you're just like TERFs"

when i FINALLY found the full context i was shocked that it was even more benign than i assumed it had to have been. all she really said was that she didn't like or trust trans men after a traumatic experience

as my girlfriend pointed out, it's a pretty universal experience for cis women to say "i hate men" or "fuck all men" especially after a bad relationship, so why on earth is this any different, why is it now a huge issue of bigotry?

I say all this as someone who didn't really follow her btw! i have no vested interest in defending her, i found the blue thing kind of annoying. if she kept posting as normal i likely would've never known or encountered her again

Homeless woman, after a backyard party, starving and looking for any food we might've forgotten to take inside. We gave her some food.

Drunk man at wrong house. Not aggressive, just confused.

Lost guy trying to find the house of a family member he was supposed to be staying with. He was a few houses down.