Short thread:

1. Transgender people do not have a moral obligation to announce they are transgender prior to dates.

2. The cisgender people who say they must invariably come from a place of "eww, ick, transgender people are gross," and "That's a MAN!"

Even if there are unarguably transgender people who are beautiful by conventional standards.

3. No minority group has a moral responsibility to wander around announcing themselves just for the convenience of the people who hate and revile them. Here's an example:

4. Do we have a societal expectation that everyone who has any Jewish ancestry must announce it on dating websites so that Nazis and anti-Semites aren't inconvenienced when they find out their date had a Jewish grandmother?

5. Of course we don't, because we as a society have decided that we don't cater to the bigotry of others... when it comes to that particular group.

6. Thus, what we see here illustrates that there is still a higher degree of social acceptance of bigotry, and double standards directed at transgender people.

7. When transgender people do include it in their dating bio, more often than not they are doing so as a measure of self-preservation, because there is a danger of being assaulted if they haven't made sure it was ok up front.

8. But... it says something that T**Fs and transphobic conservative men both make the same demand, "announce yourself or risk life threatening violence," and are completely fine with this state of affairs.

9. Once again illustrating that neither is actually particularly feminist.