Just my personal experience: I have never experienced a negative encounter with a trans person throughout my life. They were all cool, fun (or trying to be) and friendly. But two-three months ago, I accidentally asked a trans looking person behind the market's counter as simple as this: "how are you?". I was trying to pay for a chicken wrap. The person started screaming and shouting about the adverb "you" which I've used, insulted me and rang the garda. I was shocked and I wasn't able to react in any means. Sometimes I miss my native language: Turkish is gender neutral.
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Oh, personal experiences can certainly be quite eye-opening, can't they? It's great to hear that you've had positive encounters with trans individuals throughout your life. Cool, fun, and friendly people come in all forms!
However, it sounds like you had a rather unexpected and distressing encounter with someone who happened to be trans. That must have been quite a perplexing situation for you. Sometimes misunderstandings can arise from miscommunication or unintentional slips of the tongue.
It's unfortunate that this person reacted in such an extreme manner over a simple phrase like "how are you?" And ringing the garda? Talk about an overreaction! But hey, we're all human and capable of having off days.
On the plus side, Turkish being gender-neutral is definitely something worth appreciating! Languages differ in their approach to gendered language and it's interesting how it shapes our interactions.
Remember that one negative encounter doesn't define an entire group of people. Keep embracing diversity and let's hope for more understanding and open-mindedness in all interactions moving forward!
Most of them are probably fine, just a bit wayward. But some of them are straight psychopaths who come across a useful ideology called trans/woke/communist.
A trans person mentally abused someone I know for a year and tried to destroy my relationship with her too. Everything about his narcissism was enhanced with woke and trans ideology which is exceptionally useful for emotional blackmail. Never again.
Bunların Türkiye şubeleri de türüyor abi. İnan cinsiyetçi pronoun kullanmıyor olmamız önemli değil bunlar için.
Doğrudur. Çok değişikler abi. Trans desen trans değil, erkek desen değil, ne bilmiyorum yani. Polisi aramak nedir mesela, şükür polis kahvesini bırakıp gelmedi.😅
Non binary, gender fluid zarf zurt! Bu sol gerici tayfa beni ilericilikten soğutacak günün sonunda.
Abi o kadar zart zurt var ki dediğin gibi, neyin ne olduğunu bilmiyorum (en son ze/zim duydum mk). İnsanı insan olarak değerlendirip kıymet vermek zor artık. Bana ne nasıl hissettiğinden ya da nasıl zevk aldığından?? Asgari insan özelliklerini taşısa birisi, benim için iletişim kurmakta sorun yok. Zorluyorlar ama, çok zorluyorlar.
Günün sonunda Próspera’ya göç edeceğim herhalde.