If I hear “words only have power if you give them power” one more time I swear to god I’m going to attack something.

The term shemale -was not- created by trans women. Yet it is a word that without the consent or the care of trans people, is used against them. When we’re having discussions about oppression we’re talking about a situation where the oppressed party cannot just -decide- to not be oppressed. If an oppressed group could just decide that they weren’t going to be oppressed…they wouldn’t be an oppressed group.



In 2014, you feel absolutely comfortable reclaiming the term fag because of how far removed you are from the gay rights movements of the 70s and 80s. I highly doubt that the people at the forefront of the lgbt movement during that time would have just simply said “fag is just a word, it doesn’t effect me”. Why? Because people -with power- used those words to oppress the people without it. Would you feel like there was no power to the word faggot when people police were lining up up outside of a night club and breaking your shins because you were nothing more than a ‘fucking faggot’? Would a black slave feel the need to say that the word 'nigger’ had no intrinsic meaning behind it as he was being whipped because he was a 'nigger’ and that’s what he deserved?



You people fucking floor me. You all want to stand up and say “i’m not tranpshobic” i support trans rights. I would love to see the same people that say this bullshit give me a list of trans rights. Give me a list of what trans people are -actually- fighting for. Because when I have to fight with people for my right to use the fucking bathroom, I think that says a lot about where we are. People all want to rally together and say “well I support trans people and I want them to be treated equally” yet you dont know what that means nor what that entails.



Trans women are killed on a daily basis in this world for simply being trans and in a lot of cases 'shemale’ is the last word they hear before their attacker decides to attack them. They dont 'choose to give power to the words" the people -with- power give power to the words and use them to oppress. Please wake up and stop trying to paint trans people as overly sensitive people that need to get over it. We don’t control how these words are used. For GAY MEN to sit here and try to invalidate the struggles and the oppression of trans women becuase they want to laugh at a fucking joke is disgusting to me. Absolutely fucking disgusting. I don’t understand the lack of empathy that i’ve seen within the gay community these past few days. It’s shocking. I fought for your rights, why can’t you acknowledge mine? When Barilla came out in support of homophobia, i boycotted. When Chick Fil A gave money to anti gay causes I boycotted. We’re talking about a word here and the fact that you can’t just respect that and that this is always a debate fucking floors me.



Do you not see the extent of your sense of entitlement? Do you not see the privilege that allows you to walk away and not care about how these terms are used? It’s offensive to us because gay men -don’t see it as offensive and they DEFEND it. No one is saying that RuPaul is transphobic or that he uses words to be mean. All we’re doing is saying hey can you just not use that term? This is what it means to us. And gay men are getting on some Fox News right wing bullshit about being PC and 'censorship". MEANWHILE whenever someone uses faggot on television the HRC and the ACLU are on top of it trying to get it off air. Come on now.