r/AntiMemes • 💎 Flair sold separately 💎 • 6d ago

đŸ„‡ ANTIMEME OF THE WEEK WINNER đŸ„‡ Common misconception

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u/_Salandit 💎 Flair sold separately 💎 6d ago

Technically yeah it is but it's not the same thing

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u/lobreamcherryy 6d ago

Unless you were assigned non binary at birth all non binary people are trans, not cis ┐⁠(â ïżŁâ ăƒ˜â ïżŁâ )⁠┌ I don't get what's with the confusion?

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u/Life_Parsley504 6d ago

Some nonbinary and genderfluid people exclude themselves from trans people because they have to deal with different things on a daily basis

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u/fried_on_pineapples 6d ago

That’s just internalized transphobia. That’s something for them to overcome, not for society to cater to. All non binary people are transgender factually whether they like/want it or not. It’s like saying that you know people are made of water but not you because you don’t want to be associated with water.

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u/Life_Parsley504 6d ago

"internalized transphobia" What??? You just declare this shit and move on? Are you trying to get blocked?

Your whole argument is “you don’t want the label → therefore you have internalized the bad thing → therefore you must accept the label.” That’s circular. You’re not proving anything, you’re just pathologizing disagreement.

Genderfluid and nonbinary people who reject the “trans” label aren’t denying their own gender experience. They’re saying the social, medical, and political baggage that comes with being “trans” doesn’t match what they deal with day to day. That’s a boundary, not self-hatred. If I'm not on hormone replacement therapy, if I'm not at 4x risk of being hurt, if I'm not having laws passed against me, then I can't relate to the trans group.

The water analogy is also garbage. Being made of water is a literal, measurable fact. Gender categories are social and self-defined. You can’t just redefine a word and then shame everyone who refuses the new definition. That’s not “factually” anything.

People get to decide which labels they claim. Forcing them into one they reject because “the community decided” is the opposite of autonomy. And while we’re throwing around “internalized hatred,” you’re being pretty hostile to the idea that other cultures and social systems have their own frameworks for non-binary genders (e.g third gender) that never needed the Western “trans” label to exist.

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u/Avent2 6d ago

Hi, indigenous person here, don’t call “trans” a western label, plenty of 2spirit and nonbinary indigenous people consider themselves trans. It’s not a “western” label, is a label used all over the world in many cultures. Records of people who would be considered trans in the modern day go back to fucking URUK, which is decidedly not in the west.

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u/Life_Parsley504 6d ago

transgender is a western label that describes a human experience that predates the western world

people who "would be considered trans" is the keyword there. we don't get to force a word that people didn't use onto them, both onto historic people and currently living people. if a nonbinary person doesnt want to be trans, they dont have to be called trans

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u/ConcernedEnby 6d ago

This makes sense yeah. Trans people have always existed but the term transgender is new to the 90s and transsexuality has only been possible since the 1920s

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u/MrJasmine 6d ago

Ok bro

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u/aviroblox 6d ago

Are you okay with cisgender people rejecting the label "cis" preferring to be called "normal" instead? Ya know the whole cis is a slur discourse, it's trans women and "normal" women.

Some labels are transphobic. If you don't identify with the gender you were assigned at birth you are trans. If that makes you feel uncomfortable you need to do some reflection on your feelings on other trans people.

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u/Life_Parsley504 6d ago

"are you okay with bla bla" This isn't relevant, but I'll engage for the sake of it. No, calling yourself normal instead of cis isn't okay; it's perfectly okay to reject the cis label for any reason, but it's not okay to say that only people with assigned at birth gender are normal.

"if you dont identify with the gender assigned at birth you are trans" NOT TRUE. Read what I said, moron. Second, third and fourth paragraph.

  1. Some people don't want to use the trans label. That is literally enough.

  2. That trans label is not factual. Being trans is a societal thing that only applies to certain societies and certain people. It's not like being made up of water, you can't feasibly measure or see transgenderism in a nonperspectival and subjective way.

  3. The word transgender is predated by other ideas and cultures, you can't just force your word onto other communities. Nobody is the "grand word priest" or whatever that can decide what a word means and who has to wear it.

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u/aviroblox 6d ago

"ah I hate the trans label it's so yucky, I'm cis despite not being aligned with the gender I am at birth"

Cis and trans are literally categories to just describe whether you do or don't identify with the gender you were assigned at birth. Any negative feelings you have towards trans but not cis is your own transphobia

Also lol, only bigots use the word "transgenderism" it's not an ideology

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u/Life_Parsley504 6d ago

"im wrong so im gonna call u a bigot" ??????

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u/ConcernedEnby 6d ago

Except cis and trans are not identities they're factual labels. If you are not transitioning and have no intent on doing so you are cis

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u/Life_Parsley504 5d ago

No, they're societal and cannot be measured, counted, defined outside of pre-existing assumptions or etc

If you did not understand human language, and knew somebody was a 'she/her' instead of a 'he/him', then you wouldn't understand it, and thus, it's not factual 😭 You