Man this particular post certainly attracted a specific kind of dude to comment, didn’t it? I don’t care about your troubles, cis dudes. If you want me to listen, Venmo me.

I didn’t disagree with the second part of what you said. Most things in this world are geared towards cis men, dating apps are no exception. But you were pretty dismissive of her experience and chalked it up to an “obvious violation of the rules”, which was what I felt needed pushback.

Yes thank gods that Tinder is saving us from jokey refusals to do unpaid work for clueless transphobes. And I kinda doubt that she got banned half a dozen times for that, if I’m being honest.

I’d be more worried if you represented anyone other than the most pathetic subset of trans people. Don’t you have a Log Cabin Republicans meeting to attend?

Honestly, the area around Sac isn’t so bad. Lotta bedroom communities, a decent food scene, and within easy driving of some pretty cool places without the cost of living in the Bay Area or the remoteness of the mountains. I totally get where you’re coming from, though. Once you leave the 80 corridor, things get dire…

Eat my whole ass, troll.

I’m another trans person (been out for only 11 years, but that’s still a lot more than all these young whippersnappers these days), and I wholeheartedly cosign your statement.

True, so many wannabe-eugenicists.

Gods save us from feeble-minded reactionaries who assume that their experience is emblematic of the whole. 

Yuuuuup!

They threw all that in just as a way to muddy the waters for the real things, like the banning puberty blockers. That’s what they’re really after at this point.

Well you know, mediocrity is so much easier to swallow when you know there’s someone you *definitely, categorically* better than.

Honestly, I think that most liberals are happy to have trans folks in sports unless we win. Especially if their children are also in the sport. It’s the athletic equivalent of NIMBY.

Yup! I’ve already seen hot takes online about “Hey maybe the way to get our big-ticket legislation passed is by letting the GOP have some big-ticket item in return”, which:

GOP is against any institution, law, or principle that cannot be bent to their own desire for supremacy and deference.

This is also not purely a Republican/red state/conservative thing. TERFs, eco-warriors, fringe racial advocacy groups-basically every demographic has a subset that said, “what if this, but also I hate trans people?”

There’s a sizeable number of people who would rather that kids be dead than they be trans. That is how deep the hatred of trans folks is in our society. Don’t let people distract you with sports or locker rooms or whatever, that’s the appetizer and this sort of thing is the first course. If we don’t put a stop to this…

From the people who call Ohio the “Midwest”.

Having grown up in the Bay Area and now living in the Central Valley, yeah. At best, this would be considered “Central California”, but realistically if you call anything north of the line between Carmel and Yosemite or so “Southern California”, you’re gonna get weird looks.

That’s a wild thing to claim. Per the article, “90 percent of LGBTQ+ youth in South Dakota are diagnosed with anxiety or depression”.