Let's use this to think through the right way to respond when someone accuses you of doing something transphobic (or racist, sexist, etc.)https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/823314850759712768 …
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Replying to @ContraPoints
The unianimous cis opinion is that it's totally fine. Some trans people said it's totally fine.
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Replying to @ContraPoints
Other trans people said it's potentially problematic, but okay in my case because they know who I am and what I'm like.
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Still other trans people said it's definitely transphobic, & a couple said that my use of it is furthermore evidence that *I'm* transphobic.
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Replying to @Lumidingo
simply because it doesn't—at least, I thought it didn't—have that history as a term of derogation
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Replying to @Lumidingo
well I don't quite grasp what the functional problem is. It's more of an issue of connotation. I'm trying to connote "genderfuck"
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which, functionally, "shemale" could do, except that it's established use is as a slur
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