“I am mentally ill and have problems therefore ima assume that everyone i’m talking to is neurotypical and completely and utterly uneducated on all subjects they talk about”



The simple fact of the matter is, if down with cis didn’t exist we wouldn’t be having these arguments, clearly its started a lot of hate and arguing within the community - also down with cis is awful for trans people like me, I’ve been fighting for ages to show to cis people who have just been taught poorly (i mean how the f are they meant to know all the ins and outs of being transgender and the things that aren’t ok to say (such as the t slur and other things) when they haven’t been taught or educated about the subject in any way?) it also gives transphobes “ammo” and gives them “evidence” that we transfolk are as hateful as they suggest, it stops us from getting more allies (which are super useful if you have a cis person backing you up when you are trying to talk to another cis person about a thing). And don’t go “omg well if they were gonna get angry at trans people because of a “joke” then they clearly aren’t allies :)” because THAT in itself is ableist, some mentally ill people like me find it difficult to distinguish between a “joke” and being insulted, that and when something happens online and its as huge as down with cis is, a shitty forced meme that hurts people a lot, you are bound to get a few people who are cis going “wait what? I’m not transphobic!!” - but when they say that they get attacked and get called awful things like “r*pe apologist” or “supporting the murder of transfolks” etc., which they aren’t doing in any way! The people accusing that person of those things is making more of a rash and stupid assumption than the cis person in the first place!

AND you are effectively telling a cis person to undo years and years of being taught that trans people are wrong/not normal, its not their fault they were born into a society such as this, and what we need to do is change the system! Prove that we as a group are really great for the most part, and to prove we are just like cis people - albeit a bit different in how we work and stuff, like a message of “we are just as normal as you”, cuz we are ^^;

All in all down with cis is actually a really toxic and harmful “joke” with about as much humour and wit as a brick wall, we need to stop it now cuz its gotten out of hand, trans people are getting hurt and mentally ill people too, along with allies getting hurt and oh god please stop this shitty “meme” it’d be much better if it had just stopped once it had started…