I was gonna point out point by point why the stuff you're saying is still transphobic or at least massively ignorant but I'm just going to summarize cause I'm tired.

-Trans people don't have "mismatched" bodies. While a lot of trans people do want changes to their bodies, saying their bodies are or were "mismatched" sounds like they aren't or weren't really their gender. People are the sex and gender they say they are. Example: a trans woman who hasn't transitioned is still a woman and is female. It also erases trans people who, for various reasons, don't want to change their bodies.

-I really would rather not be considered "cool and admirable" for being trans. It's not a fucking fashion trend. I just want to live as my gender. Instead of admiring me for "being brave", just make it easier for me to be in the world.

-Including physical requirements for womanhood or manhood or whatever gender a person is is transphobic. I don't even need to explain this.

Trans people don't need you to translate for them. The piece is titled "what trans people hear" not "pls cissie, explain to us what you really mean". It's intention is to express the experience of trans people. We don't need you to provide the experience of cis people, as if we've never encountered it.

Translation: "I don't actually care about trans people; just let me be a piece of shit in peace!"

You'll never get peace here.

As someone who would probably like to read this myself (even though I'm about a decade out of high school), I think illustrating points with excerpts from books would be helpful. It would help clarify and also give a resource for further reading when the student is ready for more than 101 analysis. Also, it could feature writers, like those that can be found online and elsewhere, whose work they could follow regularly so they can keep up with the conversations happening now.

I think having a zine of this nature in high schools would itself spark conversation, so reviewing talking points and questions that students who aren't familiar with anti-racism and decolonization would ask could be helpful.

I frankly don't care about the health thing, but "reify things like fatphobia"? Dude, I've been telling you it's a thing as a fat person who experiences it and you aren't going to erase that. Do I need to give you examples?

Why are you scapegoating fat people for an inefficient system that makes you pay for it in the first place? You're problem shouldn't be with fat people, it should be with capitalism and the healthcare industry.

Not much, but not so little that I would be considered below the poverty line for a single person with no kids in my country. It's still not enough to get by easily on my own, so I live with a parent and help them pay bills that they struggle with anyway. I also help my grandparent out since she only has social security to live off of.

I've helped other people out with survival before but I'm being overwhelmed by bills and can't afford to anymore. Otherwise, I might be able to help with some projects or contribute to other peoples' needs.

I come here for the radical politics and that's usually what I click on. I don't mind more general stuff, but I can get that almost anywhere else.

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Being both trans and fat, I've noticed a similarity in one particular argument that is used by transphobes and fatphobes alike and appears in this very thread. It's the "biology" argument.

"It's not my personal opinion, it's just biology!"

Both use it to justify harassing trans and fat people and to deny them agency over their own bodies and/or identities. It's driven by disgust and, ironically, a complete apathy towards trans people's and fat people's wellbeing.

I've seen plenty enough of fatphobes to know their concern trolling about my health is disingenuous. They use the health argument, not because they want to support my health, but as a way to retroactively justify their disgust towards my body, a disgust that results in negative health outcomes for fat people: depression and anxiety which can lead to more weight gain, health concerns not being taken seriously by doctors, disordered eating.

And do you think fatphobes care about the negative health outcomes that fat-hate perpetuates? Hell no. You just watch. Every response will be some rendition of "b-b-but biology says this is unacceptable!"

Here's the thing, my dude. Health is different to each individual. My health as an able-bodied person is going to be different than the health of a disabled person, for example, and there's nothing wrong with either of those states of being unless the owners of those bodies say so. Biology says excess fat results in certain health outcomes. It doesn't say experiencing these health outcomes. is unacceptable or that not having disease is ideal. That was something society decided. The thing is, you don't have to go along with what society says. You can reject that narrative of fat-hate. You've decided not to.

So before you go spouting off about what biology says again, do me a favor and shove it up your ass.

And why the hell do you care about other people's health so much?

I know nutrition. I've been to doctors about it. Guess what, asshole? Still fat.

lol "This condition" is my body, you nerd. "Okay" can mean different things in different contexts. Morally, being fat is okay. Health wise, who cares? It's not your body. The fact that you are so clearly disgusted by fat people is most definitely not okay either way.

-Thinks obesity is a disease

-Thinks having said disease is a privilege

Uh, okay, buddy.

My dude, when you talk about my body itself as a disease, you are dehumanizing me. You are reducing me down to what you see. Being fat is okay. It may or may not be healthy, but it is okay.

Imagine thinking not harassing fat people is normalizing disease. lmao

If you lived as a fat person then you'd see the problem is very real. Harassment towards fat people is common. I've been singled out for it in public, I've been told I'm a disgrace to my family and country (lol like I care), and in general have received the message that there is something deeply wrong and broken about me because I'm fat. Do you think receiving those messages is healthy, oh well one?

Cut the crap. The reason you don't like fat people isn't because of some health concern or even because of capitalism. Do we blame anyone else for the negative effect capitalism has on them?

Bulling people isn't just "not ideal", it's dangerous. How is tolerating the harassment and dehumanization of fat people for the sake of concern trolling acceptable to you? Cause I know you don't really care about my fat ass.

Oh, I see. That would be a problem.

Maybe there should be shared accounts with specific purposes, like for sharing news. People who want to remain anonymous or otherwise don't want to make their own account for some reason can share what they want for that particular purpose without making themselves targets, and we know that that account isn't for voting and whatnot so people can't abuse it.

That's...not an answer. Is it because they pay for the server?

Uh, why?

He's not an admin and hasn't been for months, and if the best of these "abuses" is that he was mean to someone then you need better material.

"Fuck off with that shit." - Me.

Can you fucking not? This is a new user's thread, don't bring that shit here.