Is the constantly talking about being trans in leftist spaces not also fueling the over focus on trans people?

Bruh wtf is “trans awareness burnout." Anybody who gets" burned out" by seeing "I love my trans comrades" is never going to be a comrade. The very existence of trans people is under attack in the United States; the internet by and large is hostile to the mere presence of trans people. Pretending that that's not the case, simply not speaking, not forcefully making space, that's not what we're about here. This post has a big "All Lives Matter" energy to it. Should we not say Black Lives Matter even though in the US they're a minority? What would you think about somebody who has "Black Lives Matter burnout"? Apply that same lense to trans awareness and you'll understand why we're so vocal here.

Trans awareness burnout

As a straight cis male, I for one appreciate our trans comrades' efforts to combat straight cis male awareness burnout.

I'm pretty sure 40% is only a slight overestimate for this site's demographics.

The right has identified a punching bag. It doesn't matter to fascist state legislators that trans people are only 2% of the population, they'll keep wailing on them. Mass ignorance is one of the things that allows them to do so without any consequences. As with homophobia, racism, and misogyny, we can't simply cover our eyes and pretend they don't exist to make them disappear. No easy targets, no separate struggles, no one gets left behind.

Going off like this site and a few others I browse you’d think trans people are like 40% of people instead of more like 2%.

While it may not be 40%, the trans population of niche leftist web-forums will be higher than 2%.

Trans people are more online, for a lot of reasons. Introversion due to social stigma or dysphoria (consciously or unconsciously) from a young age, higher rates of autism (which has its own pile of reasons for autistic people of all sorts to be 'more online'), and just, being a minority and wanting to connect with 'people like you' in a way that physical geography makes difficult. Trans people are both pushed out of 'normal spaces', and drawn towards 'niche spaces' for these reasons. Obviously, a generalization that won't apply to everyone, but it'll skew the statistics.

On top of that, trans people are much more likely to be leftist. Again, partially from being 'drawn towards' leftism for a variety of reasons, but also being 'pushed out of' the right and center.

So it really shouldn't be a surprise that niche online left spaces have a large trans contingent.

And, of course, while much of the 'culture war' around trans issues are right wing loser whinging online, there's very real threats, political and personal, to being a trans person specifically. And, lots of online spaces, "leftist" ones included, can attract transphobes, and being loud about "I love my trans comrades!!!!!" not only affirms trans users that this is a space that isn't afraid to kick out shitheels, it also honeypots shitheels into 'debating' if loving trans comrades is 'valid' (letting mods promptly kick them).

No.

https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/

Fascism will eventually come for everyone, but they always start with the most 'acceptable' targets. In Germany that was trans folks, as it is today in the USA/UK. The small numbers of trans people is an element of this strategy. If you want to see other marginalized folks get more attention here, then be the change you want to see. But DO NOT tell folks to 'tone it down' or whatever other libshit.

No, I don't think so. We're a very useful scapegoat for reactionaries, I don't think that changes if there was less "I love my trans comrades" posts on hexbear or even on twitter

No.

The hatred of trans people is being fueled by right wing and liberal media projects manufacturing outrage. Some lefties expressing solidarity to trans people in forum spaces that the right only wind up in to ridicule is not contributing to anti-queer sentiment.

The long and short of this subject is that reactionaries' fears are entirely ungrounded from reality - nothing you can do can make them worse, because they're already doing it as fast as they can

Oh sure, they'll cite whatever their targets might have said recently, but never in a way that comprehends it, much less references anything real about it. You can bet they'll pretend to misunderstand you, and they'll make accounts pretending to be [target] to try to guilt you as being responsible for your enemies' bigotry, and if you have any sense you'll slap them the fuck down about it

Trans liberation, like other sites in the so-called 'culture war', is a concrete battlefield of the class war.

Trans issues, women's issues, racialised people's issues, homeless people's issues are the issues of trans, female, racialised and homeless workers. Each line is a front that MUST be fought on, and the class war is not some higher, more abstract thing that can be fought independently but is the sum of the concrete battles face by each section of the working class. Now, I'm not accusing you of this, but failing to understand that is the basis of the "socially conservative" patsocs, vulgar materialists and other pseudo-left thought trap movements.

The capitalists want to carve up the working class into a hierarchy that they can control through a tiered scale of patronage, with white, cis men at the top, and their success at doing so is the cornerstone of capitalism's current longevity. Only complete solidarity between EVERY section of the working class will lead to a successful revolution, and the section of the working class currently under the heaviest fire is our trans comrades. So, here in our secret bunker, they get the most support.

People who don't find societal acceptable in general society seek it out in online forums. Trans is a phenomenon as old as time, but the idea of a trans community is incredibly recent.

For this forum specifically, it literally would not exist without the effort and work put in by our trans comrades. Imo, communism ideology in America would not exist without the dedicated posting of our trans comrades.

Positive attention is necessary otherwise ALL the coverage of trans people would be fundamentalists, TERFs, and other psychos.

You raise a valid point that we don't have the same energy to support the plights of indigenous people, the homeless, or other groups that are similarly being attacked by the state, but I think that can be explained because those groups aren't as present in our spaces like trans people are. We do have some indigenous and homeless comrades in this site who post about their experiences, but if I had to guess I'd say we don't have a representative sample; yet with trans comrades it's the opposite where I'm pretty sure we might have more trans voices here than the general population proportionally.

Probably you hear trans people more here because they aren't being crushed to death like they would be in an MSM space.

crying about trans people during Pride Month

stfu

doing transphobia "as a bit" is still transphobia, go fuck yourself you liberal wanker

what is the endgoal of posting about how trans people are too loud during pride month? did you listen, learn and grow from this

Well, at least this is in the appropriate comm and not a reply to one of those posts.

Eh, just scroll past if it’s not the content you’re looking for atm

you :trans-gun:

It's almost like a group of people who are openly attacked and marginalized (often to the point of calls for/ steps towards genocide) are going to be overrepresented in leftist spaces. This is not surprising.

I assume there just happen to be way more trans posters on leftist spaces than indigenous or homeless posters

Maybe. But most trans discussions I see on a weekly basis are related to the conservative "reaction".

Going off like this site and a few others I browse you’d think trans people are like 40% of people instead of more like 2%. I mean it's probably not 40% but I think trans people tend to be pretty significantly overrepresented in these places, and a fair amount of the time it is these trans people themselves posting about being trans and trans issues. And no it's not fuelling the over focus on trans people, I'd say it's more of a consequence of it and the very rapid spread of anti-trans measures in the US (and to a lesser extent in some other places as well). Do I find it slightly annoying just by the sheer volume, yeah I do (and I'm trans myself), but it's pretty dumb to act like it's somehow harmful.