RE: That Trans Thread
April 28, 2022 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2022 at 10:12 pm by JairCrawford.)
(April 28, 2022 at 10:02 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(April 28, 2022 at 8:56 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: … Forgive me if I seem a bit overzealous, but, am I the only one uncomfortable with the idea of talking directly to a trans woman about men we evidently think she might look like?If I posted my picture - and someone commented and posted a picture of some unfortunate woman who looked like me, I would probably just wonder if Dad had a girlfriend while he was in the Air Force that he neglected to tell us about.
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
People tend to look like other people.
It' s just life.
But we have knowledge of these things, or if not, access to knowledge. For instance we know, or could easily learn, that for trans people, dysphoric feelings can be very intense. To talk to a trans woman about her image looking like a man can be extremely triggering to the dysphoria she has dealt with her whole life. I wouldn’t be comfortable going there. I wouldn’t want to be responsible for that potential distress.