pumpkinpeach:

A friend of a friend of a friend of someone on my facebook recently uploaded this picture.


And tagged a trans girl as the bottle. The girl asked to be untagged and the picture taken down. Because she’d experienced hate and violence associated with that word.

Which is totally reasonable.

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I find the word “tranny” pretty jarring. (I just told my phone not to learn it when I typed it in) I tend to encounter it in the vocabulary of putatively cis individuals who don’t necessarily intend it hatefully but are repeating the mistakes of white kids using the N-word to greet their friends.

I think the vast variation in experience for different trans* persons well result in this word coming across differently to many, seeming more reclaimable to some and less so to others. I like to give words like that a wide berth.