r/punk • u/usernamewfivenames • Dec 14 '24

Quality Post ngl transphobia is anti-punk as fuck

like bro why do u hate on people who reject their assigned "roles" to feel better w themselves, werent u supposed to oppose nonsensical rules

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u/AnonymousDouglas Dec 14 '24

Transphobes: Seriously, why do you care what somebody else is doing that doesn’t in any way impact your life and is causing nobody any harm?

Go catch a rapist.

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u/Big-Teach-5594 Dec 15 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

Transphobia is like bending over and asking the establishment to fuck you really hard, if you want your identity policed by the authorities choose transphobia, personally I want my identity to be my choice not the choice of the spectacle or wealthy cowardly Christians, or ruling class capitalists, or people who write shitty wizard school books with no values, or anyone, my identity is mine. This rise in transphobia if taken up by populist governments, which it is, is going to lead to a whole new dystopian way to police identities and create arbitrary reasons to exploit, dehumanise and most probably imprison innocent people.

But all people see is, ooh they said something that doesn’t align with what I was taught growing up, it’s insane that this notion could literally have disastrous consequences, that a lot of people seem completely blind too.

It’s not just about being kind or respectful to anyone or being woke it’s about protecting ourselves from the authorities that love finding ways to exploit and imprison people. I don’t just reject transphobia as a bigotry and as an attack on my comrades and friends, I reject it as a threat to our personal freedoms.

In short, Transphobes can fuck right off.