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This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.

The problem with the current tide of queer community "ace acceptance" is that allos think that aphobia is just saying glaringly hateful shit, and refuse to acknowledge that they're performing aphobic microaggressions all the time.

reporting a trans woman for "NSFW" (completely normal selfie in a tshirt) - 1 button press

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

I know this has been said before, but public disability structures like ramps and buttons to open doors don't just benefit disabled people, but everyone, in various ways. Yeah the button is helpful for someone with a disability who can't physically push open doors, but they're also helpful for the basketball player who broke her arm and is walking on crutches and struggling to open doors without them falling on her. They're helpful for the elderly man who wants to get around on his own but doesn't have the strength to open the door to the store. They're helpful for the guy who got all his Christmas presents last minute and doesn't have enough hands to push open the door to the target and would struggle using his shoulder to open it. Ramps aren't just helpful to wheelchair users, but to the mother of 4 whose kids won't stop running around, and would risk tripping and getting hurt going up the stairs. They're helpful to the 8 year olds who are rushing around on rollerblades and wouldn't be able to get up the stairs without slipping. To the drunk girls stumbling out of a bar, knowing they'd faceplant if they tried to get down stairs. Curb cuts were made for disabled people, but are helpful for the person on their phone who isn't looking at the ground and would've tripped into the crosswalk if the slope wasn't there. For the boy crossing the street with a heavy suitcase. For the girls who are walking in heels to their first party and might've twisted an ankle stepping down from a curb.