Q: What are transgender people tired of hearing?

What are transgender people tired of hearing?

• “It’s a choice”
• “Bathrooms”
• “Trump”
• “Caitlyn Jenner” (or worse, her deadname)
• “RuPaul”
• “It’s a phase”
• “It’s a mental illness”
• “Protect our women and children” (in the context of gender-segregated spaces)
• “Have you had the, uh, you know… surgery?”
• “Trump”
• “Cis is a slur”
• “Straight Pride”
• “What do you and your wife do for sex now?” (I mean, c’mon, seriously?!)
• “Religious freedom”
• “You’ll never be a real woman/man”
• “Welcome to womanhood”
• “I don’t agree with being transgender”
• “Transgenderism” (it isn’t a religious belief or doctrine)
• “Transgenders” (the word is an adjective and isn’t subject to pluralization)
• “Transgendered” (the word is an adjective and not a verb – there is no past tense)
• “Trans women erase lesbians”, or “trans women want to force lesbians to have sex with them” (yes, some people really say this!)
• “Trans-Identified Male” (sometimes abbreviated as “TIM”, referring to a transgender woman)
• “Trump”
• “Trans women perpetuate harmful feminine stereotypes”, often delivered with “you’re not feminine enough to be a woman”
• “Trump”
• “Transtrenders”
• “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)” (this isn’t real!)
• “Autogynephilia (AGP)” (also not real!)
• “Cutting off your penis” (no, I reconfigured it to better suit my needs)
• “Military ban” (it’s purely a political/religious ploy – the top brass in the military don’t even support it)
• “You can’t change biology”
• “Chromosomes” (chromosomes are only one part of the picture, and most of the time, they’re not even in the picture – have you had your karyotype run?)
• “Natal women/men”
• Using the wrong pronouns
• Using a deadname
• “Trump”
• “Giving dangerous hormones to young children” (no, it simply doesn’t work that way — at all!)
• “Performing irreversible surgeries on children” (no, that doesn’t happen either – trans youth are at least 17 before the possibility of surgery comes into the picture)
• “Dangerous hormone blockers” (these are the same puberty blocking medicines which have been given to youth for precocious puberty for decades. They are reversible.)
• “Social contagion” (being trans isn’t an easy existence – people aren’t signing up for this for the fun of it)
• “Mutilating your body”
• “It isn’t natural”
• “God doesn’t make mistakes”
• “Feelings don’t trump biology”
• Oh yeah, and “Trump”