I started getting very mean comments from people, usually they were TERFs but this time… this time was different. I was getting this onslaught of mean and hurtful comments from trans people!! From people I thought were with me. I thought we were on the same side. It feels so isolating to be excluded by my own people. Binary trans friends, please re-think your idea on what trans means. This really hurts.
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This is the kind of thing that makes me hesitate so much when introducing the fact that I’m genderfluid, panromantic, and asexual. All things that are hot button topics for rejection on either side of the conversation. It hurts seeing people that are supposed to be your kin pushing away people like you. Plus it just sucks to see people that were “bullied” become the “bullies”, they were subject to gatekeeping from parts of society and to exercise control and power they turn around and repeat the cycle. It’s a horrible unhealthy thing that presents itself in many forms, a near perpetual cycle that needs to be broken. Of course there are exceptions and not everyone is the same, but it still stands that passing on the same hurt that you experienced to others isn’t good for anyone.
Sorry for the rant, love your comics btw!
I’m sorry this has been happening to you 🙁 I’m always interested in what you have to say in your comics. Thanks for sharing even the hardest stuff.