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you can live in a red house or a green house but a greenhouse isn’t a house that’s why TERFs insist on spelling it transwoman instead of trans woman

Ryan Bedell@ryanbedell.bsky.social

Why is it a big deal?

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very simple stuff it forces trans people to appear pedantic when correcting it and no one ever criticizes the transphobe trying to do weirdo linguistic social engineering on you

it’s like how conservatives ONLY refer to the “Democrat Party” instead of it correctly as the “Democratic Party” the goal is to eliminate a possible subconscious positive bias that an enemy’s correct terminology provides them

honestly at this point every time someone uses “transwoman” or “transman” I feel like the best thing to do is to insist on saying “ciswoman” and “cisman.” either that or just stop talking to such people. probably the latter is preferable

Wee-Bey is a spirit guide worth having sometimes let's be real Yeah, unlike this other dude, you would get how language points that seem so trivial to unaffected parties can actually be incredibly important pivot points for changing people's views.