There is no excuse for transphobia.
We’re too strong for sports and too beautiful for stripping and beauty pageants? How does that work?
I was a stripper once.
I worked with cis women and they tried everything to make me feel like I didn’t belong there despite being hired to do the same job they do. When that didn’t work, it escalated to threats of violence and someone cut my brake line.
Day one —
Me: “Where is the bathroom?”
Jealous girl (an adult industry term; these were obviously grown women): “The men’s room is over there.” (The bathrooms were single-occupancy.)
Girl wanting me to be a flying monkey: screaming at jealous girl “How dare you!” Blah blah blah.
Same girl two weeks later: shades me constantly for not flying or monkeying
Another girl: seems to like me personally, but is openly transphobic
Yet another girl: fails at gassing me up and accuses me of being conceited anyway
I had good boundaries. They all had an angle.
It’s not my fault that I’m 10 years older, was AMAB, and their clients still preferred me. 😭
While I’m at it, why are trans women banned from beauty pageants?
Transphobes: trans women are still men and have physical advantages against (cis) women in sports.
Also transphobes: trans women are still men and should not be allowed to compete against (cis) women in beauty pageants for reasons.
Are we too masculine or too feminine? You can’t have it both ways.
“It is flattering though, knowing they think trans women are smarter, faster, stronger, and more beautiful than most people.
HRT is some kind of super soldier serum.”
~ A former friend
grins in warrior princess
