RIP: "More than just gay, she was transgender"

[xXRebeccaXx]

Actually, the obit was published in a LGBT web blog.  The author is most likely gay.

Most gay men are transphobic.

[Rebekah with a K-A-H]

Most gay men are transphobic.

Most people are transphobic, but that's not exactly something that needs to be said.

[xXRebeccaXx]

Most people are transphobic, but that's not exactly something that needs to be said.

Very few people are "transphobic" just ignorant.

[Rebekah with a K-A-H]

Very few people are "transphobic" just ignorant.

Transphobia isn't merely hate.  Transphobia is an inherent, structurally imposed erasure and devaluation of transness.

When there are only two gendered bathrooms, that's transphobia.  When varsity athletics (or, for that matter, professional athletics) exclude people on the basis of their transness, that's transphobia.  When people make casual references to the inherency of gendered behaviors, reduce genders and sexes to mere genitalia, and gawk at the few trans* people of whom they are aware, pointing out flaws in their "gender façade", that's transphobia.  People are transphobic because the frameworks in which they grew up are transphobic, but they're still transphobic.