Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-30093099-20160930023254

 I can’t respect someone who doesn’t like the idea of trans people or calls themselves a proud transphobe because I’m trans. I hear this kind of thing very frequently, and just changing the wording doesn’t make the intention any different. You can say you don’t like the idea of trans people, but calling yourself a proud transphobe means that you hate trans people. I have plenty of reason to be in a discussion about trans people being trans myself. As for the rudeness, being called rude isn’t impolite, it’s a statement based on how your interactions are perceived by others. Resorting to name calling would be impolite, but I’m trying to make a statement as a trans person as to why your rhetoric is both tiring and incorrect. Whether others have been disrespectful in this thread has no bearing on the conversation that is occurring at this moment now. I’m not interacting with the previous commenters. To hate the idea of a person and then to say you don’t hate the person is both incorrect and makes no sense, you cannot hate the innate “idea” of what a person is, and then say that you don’t hate a person who embodies said idea. Now this thread is for discussing Alluka’s gender, so it would be great if we could stick to the topic at hand.