@45am any site that uses content warnings for something as trivial as that actually makes me mad. But, I'll read it.
First paragraph already gives me that "I like X, but X has problematic issues", which is a giant red flag. Second, she uses a quote from fucking urban dictionary of all places as if that's an actual definition of the word. Even then, the post was clearly trying to mess around a bit, but using the post as a point is like me using an out of context forum post to represent an entire site. Third, that link to HRC.org, which is an extremely biased site by the way, claims that these were "clearly transphobic cases" despite providing 0 evidence that they were actually motivated by transphobia. Not to mention, it was *30* people. I don't like devaluing deaths, but 30 people dead is nothing to claim that there's a rise of transphobia about. That's media inflation of numbers.
Also, it's a responsibility of a trans person to inform whoever they're gonna fuck that they ARE transgender, especially if they haven't had bottom surgery yet. You can't expect people who are straight to want to fuck you if you still have their equipment. Also the thread claims that trans people can't reclaim the word... because it's way too specific??? That's fine, trans people don't want the word anyways, because it's not a slur, and *it's not meant to describe us*. At this point I stopped reading, because it was becoming a blatant "let us non trans people defend you trans people okay" thread. That pisses me off.
Why do people have such stupid fucking savior syndromes?