Here’s a definition for you, social justice warriors: ableism is thinking “transabled” people (who are physically healthy but want to be and pretend to be disabled) deserve the same accommodations as functionally disabled people.
To really think that shows such a profound dismissiveness of what it means and what it takes to live with an actual disability. The disabled have a hard enough time fighting the misconception that they’re faking it, without dragging along hangers-on who ACTUALLY ARE FAKING IT.
Do disability rights a favor and go stump for the otherkin community instead.
Our current level of technology doesn’t allow us to diagnose dysphoria in others without their help. By saying, “you don’t really feel dysphoria, you’re faking it and pretending to be disabled,” you are committing the ableism you are accusing others of- the very act of pretending that dysphoria isn’t a disability seems insulting to me. How do you know it’s not? Do you think transabled people are faking their dysphoria to marginalize you? How is that any less insulting than feminists who think transwomen people are faking their dysphoria to marginalize the feminist movement?
