Yeah, the issue with the targeted person calling it out is that it just allows the attacker to pull the classic DARVO tactic and play the victim. If you fight back, it allows them to paint you in a bad light and use you as an example against everyone like you.

That’s why it’s so important to have allies. It’s the ally’s job to get angry and confrontational when the victimized person can’t. When the victim needs to maintain decorum, the ally should be flipping tables and getting in the victimizer’s face about it. Because Keating is an old white guy; His identity can’t be used to further victimize trans people like McBride’s would have been.

This is a perfect example of how the situation should play out. Bully tries to throw insults. The insulted person remains calm, but their ally gets in the bully’s face and makes a scene. The bully quickly retreats when they realize that they may need to actually back up their words, and the original victim is able to say that they did nothing wrong.

What’s in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.

We have conceal and carry laws for this exact reason. /jk

And why they completely ignore that trans men exist any time trans people come up.

~~Was he on this committee? I have not seen a list of names.~~

I misread a preposition, from instead of for.

Sigh, this party sometimes.

I didnt know she was trans- To be totally honest im actually out of the loop on a lot of this, Visually, she looks EXACTLY like a woman (man I wish I could swap genders and pass-)

Dude she passes 100%, there's not anything to her appearance that looks masculine, and I say this as just someone looking at her first glance. I saw her for the first time and said "Thats deadass a woman, How do you misgender her she's literally a woman. Are they stupid?" then scrolled the comments and found out she's trans.

AND THEY STILL MISGENDERED HER??? Nah dude- fuck whoever did that, they're a prick fr.

(you're still a prick if you purposefully misgender someone but like- idk if the person looked exactly like man but prefers She/her, my dumbass is gonna be struggling regardless; I can barely remember to eat food during the day. But this scenario is like looking at Janet Mock and calling her a He. WTF??)