𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

If you're a cis journalist who writes about trans people, you have effectively appointed yourself our representative to the public, at a time when we are fighting for the most basic form of societal recognition. We didn't vote for you, but here you are.

If you aren't abnormally arrogant, you might expect some sense of humility & responsibility to the group you're representing to come along with that. If a large percentage of your "constituents" are critical of your work, you'd think that'd be a cause for reflection & self-doubt.

To instead reflexively insist, "No, it's the transgenders who are wrong," to block your critics, to go about publicly discrediting them—it's such an abuse of the position you've appropriated for yourself.

But of course, the cis representatives get to throw their tantrum. Their basic capability as rational agents is never questioned.