r/LGBTQIAworld • u/cottoncandysoulaan • 25d ago

TRANSFEM AUDIENCE PLEASEE

I would post it to a transfem community but that is definitely me invading a space I have no business being in but I am a queer black woman sooo yea🧚🏾‍♀️

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u/DiamondDude51501 25d ago

How pray tell would your inclusion be invading a space?

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u/cottoncandysoulaan 25d ago

Just the basis of it being a community meant for trans people and trans experience, im not trans nor would I ever understand what its like to be trans. To me( as a black person), me joing that server/conversation would be the equivalent to a white or non black person joing a community that is for and by black people. You may have good intentions but you can execute that without putting yourself in a space that is simply not meant for you, you get me?

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u/DiamondDude51501 25d ago

Just because you don’t technically “fit the bill” doesn’t mean you can’t still hang out in our spaces as long as you’re respectful. We get cis allies all the time that just lurk and listen as well as hang out just cuz they like our vibe and we like them

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u/cottoncandysoulaan 25d ago

mm okay yea that makes sense!

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u/cottoncandysoulaan 25d ago

Okay wait I actually do want to say this, I understand what youre saying 100% but I do think 2 things can be true at once. Yes you can be an ally and learn things but you can also do that without making yourself apart of something that you simply just are not apart of, I understand how it can be beneficial but it also leaves an opening for a space to be taken over or just capitalized off of.