Well, I finally had my first time being somewhat directly confronted with transphobia.
The background story is the following: So I made a meme (in another lemmy community) about a relatively unpleasant interaction I had with my parents ( I told them that I wanted to change my legal gender and they were not amused about that at all and said I should wait with it, they said I should also wait with hormones until I finished my degree for whatever reason) and someone decided to comment something about me being trans being a failure of my parents. I of course replied to it and several other other people were quite eager to roast him for this complete shit take. This ended up in him spitting a god awful amount of obvious transphobia. He called us a trend, a cult and us being trans a result of social media. He also cheered for "the reversal of the trans trend" and of course had to bring the children into it again. I would call myself not that sensitive and quite resilient to insults and similar stuff, but at some point I realized, that I have to stop the bullshit he wrote, because it definitely impacted my mood. Luckily it did not caused dysphoria, but It made me feel quite shit. He did ended up getting banned (obviously) and I am quite happy for that, since I have absolutely zero interest in Interacting with this fact resilient asshole ever again, but it was awful, even tho it was "just" my identity getting denied (and not stuff like direct threads or insults) and through the internet, but it definitely showed me, that I 100% do not want to repeat something similar in real life.
edit: One good thing was, that there were plenty of people roasting him and standing against the bullshit he said. As everyone says, allys are 100% needed, because i would not have had the energy and will to constantly push back against his bullshit.
Edit 2: Aaaaaaand here comes the Dysphoria.........
The thing i dont get, is why can't people let people live their damn lives.
It makes conservatives short circuit when I ask them this question. They literally cant fathom empathy. Hell its not even empathy, its just allowing someone to exist. Its literally the easiest possible thing.
I feel for you friend and im sorry you had to go through that. Fuck those people.
I asked him the same question and he went on a rant about how we are making the kids trans.....
Well conservatives are making the kids dead with school shootings so which one is better? Also let's look at the stats of Trans people vs right wing psychopaths.
Sadly they dont listen to logic. Otherwise they wouldn't be nazis.
you can't make a cis kid trans, and you can't make a trans kid cis - it's just sheer ignorance
Equality feels like oppression to those used to privilege.