• Jake Farm
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    275 months ago

    Isn’t it transphobic to lump drag queens and trans people together?

        • @[email protected]
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          265 months ago

          Take another look at the dialogue in the first panel, and the t-shirt worn by the chump.

          You can find it, I believe in you.

        • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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          185 months ago

          And nothing in the comic implies trans people.

          “We did it! We finally outlawed all the trans people…”

          Dude it’s the first fucking line…

        • Skua
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          145 months ago

          The first panel has the left character saying “trans people” and the right character wearing an “LGB sithout the T” shirt

    • katy ✨
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      375 months ago

      i would assume the artist is mocking the terfs and transphobic l’s and g’s who got in on the “save the children” nonsense

    • @[email protected]
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      315 months ago

      Transphobic legislation usually doesn’t make the distinction, because, you see, it’s transphobic legislation.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        Yep. If they ban drag performance, and don’t recognize trans identity as valid, then trans people presenting as their gender would be considered “in drag.” Merely going out in public would be criminalized, which is the point. They want extermination, but will take disappearance in the meantime.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      Yes and no. Obviously, trans and drag are two different things, but they are hated for the same reason: transgressing gender normativity and especially showing it’s OK for AMAB persons to have and display characteristics traditionally assigned to femininity.

      So yes, equating trans with drag is wrong for all reasons, but this doesn’t make this cartoon transphobic, only realistic.

      • TheHarpyEagle
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        15 months ago

        Indeed, one need not listen to TERFs and conservatives for very long to see that they happily conflate the two as “men in dresses.” (FtM people simply don’t exist unless it’s someone they liked to jerk off to pre-transition)