The lgbtqiap+ rights movement would not exist if not for the Stone Wall riots. We would not be where we are today if a bunch of young queer people of color had not physically attacked the police officers that where abusing them.

But besides that specific example, calling out your oppressors and holding them accountable has always been more effective than “being nice”. Do you think that when Sylvia Rivera crashed a closed cabinet meeting about gay rights by climbing a freaking wall in freaking heels that she just politely explained why she and people like her deserved rights to a group of men who had purposefully tried to silence her voice on an issue that effected her far more than it effected them? No! She probably got in there and just immediately started shouting everything she had to say, trying to make her voice heard as much as possible before security dragged her out. Being nice doesn’t work when you literally did nothing to deserve what’s happening to you. And I swear to god if you bring up MLK or Gandi I will reach through my computer screen and slap you because they called people out on their shit too you fucking asswipe.

I’ve been called “cisphobic” for literally just pointing out that transphobia exist. I’ve been called “cisphobic” for saying that trans people don’t contribute to transphobia as much as cis people do, which is the most obvious thing in the world and yet I’m a horrible person for saying it. I’ve been called “cisphobic” for saying that I hate people who think I don’t deserve basic human rights, or saying I hate people who murder and abuse trans women. Cisphobia is a term used to silence and demonize and victim blame transgender people and put us back in our place. That has always been it’s purpose and that is all it has ever been used to do.

I love how you really have no idea how absolutely reprehensible what you’re saying is. You are literally saying you think it’s trans people’s fault that they’re beaten, raped murdered and denied their humanity and that they on some level deserve what happens to them because they made mildly rude completely harmless jokes about cis people or vented their frustration about their abusers. Like, you’re a terrible person with no soul, why should I have to answer to you at all?