10 *More* Ways Trans People Are Told We Shouldn’t Exist

Truly, there are a lot of ways. Here are items 11–20.

Magician by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

In my last article, I explained 10 ways in which messages that people shouldn’t be trans amount to messages that trans people shouldn’t exist. This meaning is evident according to the common sense of many trans people. What is called “common sense” is often a way of referring to things we truly do know. Trans people have a relevant perspective here. Many of us recognize that “trans people shouldn’t exist” is what these statements really mean.

10 Ways Trans People Are Told We Shouldn’t Exist

Here, I continue with ways #11–20 in which transphobes communicate that trans people shouldn’t exist.

11. Transphobes Use the Word ‘Woke’ to Marginalize People by Race, Gender, and Sexuality

In my previous list, the first item I mentioned was that right-wing media strategist Chris Rufo admits deliberately assigning fake meanings to the terms “critical race theory” and “radical gender theory.” Having succeeded, at least in the…