Favorite lines by people who "just don't get it"

[Kevin Peña]

" how do you know what it feels like to be a woman? You have never had a menstrual cycle!"

Oh yeah, what if she was born sterile? 

I respond to hateful comments with snappy retorts.

[Beth Andrea]

Oh wow...I never knew that a woman's entire existence consists of just one thing...her menstrual cycle!

So all other feelings and emotions and experiences don't exist for women? Well jeez what a disappointment!

LOL

[Kevin Peña]

To make this thread a bit less depressing, here's a line from someone that gets it. I'm a non-op trans individual, and my sister told me, ver batum, "Oh good, don't get a vagina. They are so annoying and high-maintenance." 

[LilDevilOfPrada]

To make this thread a bit less depressing, here's a line from someone that gets it. I'm a non-op trans individual, and my sister told me, ver batum, "Oh good, don't get a vagina. They are so annoying and high-maintenance." 

Smart sister I know a few friends who would say the same!

[Beth Andrea]

In a way, so is a penis...annoying when those unexpected/unwanted erections happen....and high maintenance for how often one has to jac.....ok, let's keep it "G" 

ETA: I don't see all these posts as depressing...I think it's interesting to see all the excuses and rationalizations people use to think we're out of our mind...and I see the subtle bits of anger in their thoughts, that we DARE to exist outside of their binary world.

[Kevin Peña]

In a way, so is a penis...annoying when those unexpected/unwanted erections happen....

Oh, you can say that again. Some b**** actually had the audacity to say, "Women don't get erections, silly."

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[Liminal Stranger]

And now, it's time for Quotes From the Gender Police:

"When are you going to just stop?"
"Why do you want to make my life miserable?"
"Why do you want everyone to make fun of you."
"If you do this, you'll never be anything."
"Stop bothering me with your nonsense already! You'll dress like a normal person and like it."
"Don't be so dramatic. It's not going to kill you."
"(Birth name). (Birth name)(Birth name)(Birth name)(Birth name)(Birth name)!"
"It's your name. Get used to it."
"You know, you're so smart. Why don't you use the brains God gave you and think about how ridiculous this is."
"People don't just go around changing their bodies."
"If you keep this up, I'm going to have to send you away."
"If you keep this up, I'm going to have you committed."
"I'm taking you to a psychiatrist so we can find out what's really wrong with you, not this bull****."
"Yeah, well I don't believe that this is the problem."
"What do you think you're accomplishing by doing this? You're just using it as a way to escape because you think it'll make you happier."
"Why do you have to be crazy?"
"What should I do, burn all these pictures of my DAUGHTER?"
"Any doctor who would allow you to do this is a quack doctor. Only some kind of a maniac would let people do something like that."
"You just have body image issues."
"You just have low self-esteem."

This has been Quotes From the Gender Police! We look forward to seeing you next time!

[King Malachite]

"Even if you get the surgeries, they won't make you happy."


Me thinking:  "How dare you tell me what will and will not make me happy....especially coming from a cisgendered person who will never understand the emotional pain I go through on a daily....heck hourly basis.

[DeeperThanSwords]

To make this thread a bit less depressing, here's a line from someone that gets it. I'm a non-op trans individual, and my sister told me, ver batum, "Oh good, don't get a vagina. They are so annoying and high-maintenance." 

I feel a bit bad for saying this, but I'd be tempted to say "wanna swap then?".

[Siege]

I've been presenting masculine since I was 19 - 20-ish, so...over two years.
People often comment on my appearance, usually when I'm in the presence of my dad.
"Oh, [legal name] looks so much like a boy!"
"That's because she thinks she is/wants to be one."

Makes me want to pull out what little hair I keep.

[Michael Joseph]

"are you still trying to be a boy?"

[soulfairer]

What a topic I've heard (from a L, married, friend!): "you're androgynous already. Won't you stop? You will just be some kind of freak if you don't"

Friendly fire is very hard!

She then admitted that she was "overreacting" and just "didn't know how she'd become orthodox like that". But still, damage already done.

[Kevin Peña]

I feel a bit bad for saying this, but I'd be tempted to say "wanna swap then?".

I would if I could, but I can't. 

[Padma]

Over the weekend, I had someone tell me at length (in what he presumably thought was a supportive way) how I can't assume that people are going to comfortably relate to me as a woman. I asked him why he was assuming that I was assuming that, and he shut up.

He also tried to tell me I was "a bit sharp" with a friend when I corrected their pronoun usage about me. So I checked with the friend in question, who said "no, you were very polite about it, thanks for checking, I was happy to be corrected, and by the way, you're a great dancer..."

[big kim]

He's been taking chromosomes to be a woman overheard in a shop yesterday by someone who should have paid more attention in biology lessons!

[Nero]

He's been taking chromosomes to be a woman overheard in a shop yesterday by someone who should have paid more attention in biology lessons!

haha 

Over the weekend, I had someone tell me at length (in what he presumably thought was a supportive way) how I can't assume that people are going to comfortably relate to me as a woman. I asked him why he was assuming that I was assuming that, and he shut up.

He also tried to tell me I was "a bit sharp" with a friend when I corrected their pronoun usage about me. So I checked with the friend in question, who said "no, you were very polite about it, thanks for checking, I was happy to be corrected, and by the way, you're a great dancer..."

What's this 'comfortably relating' about?

[soulfairer]

To make this thread a bit less depressing, here's a line from someone that gets it. I'm a non-op trans individual, and my sister told me, ver batum, "Oh good, don't get a vagina. They are so annoying and high-maintenance." 

From many people: "You aren't getting one, are you?"

"But you aren't really a woman, those emotions you feel must be placebo"
"You just feel different because you made it, it must be your head"

[Padma]

Oh yes, and I got to update my response to this one:

Them: "So... you're going to have it turned inside out?"
Me: "No, it's already inside out, I want it outside in."

[Jeatyn]

Oh yes, and I got to update my response to this one:

Them: "So... you're going to have it turned inside out?"
Me: "No, it's already inside out, I want it outside in."

lolz this made me sit and think "wait...what?" for a far longer than it should have done. Excellent response 

[Edge]

Repeatedly calling me "she" even though I introduced myself with my obviously male name and my friend keeps calling me "he" in front of him.
Giving me a speech about how powerful and great women in mythology are as if that is going to convince me that I'm actually a woman. I'm not male because I don't know that women are cool. I'm male because I'm male.
This is from another trans person. Assuming I'm trying to fit into her perceived gender roles. Sorry lady, but I already fit into the role I want to: mine. She also said something about changing ourselves to fit our changed outer appearance. I have no clue why she transitioned, but I'm transitioning to make my outer appearance fit who I already am. Yes, I am going to change. That tends to happen over time and with experience. However, transitioning won't make me a completely different person neither do I want to be.
Oh yeah and my friend claimed that she and her family are ok with me being trans. Then how come they still refer to me as a girl?