Trans twitter sucks because everyone comes in with so much trauma and
hyper-vigilance for any attack on their identity that even the mildest internal criticism gets blown out into an ideological battle where someone& #39;s 3am tweet becomes a discourse topic you loose friends over.

This isn& #39;t a real community and I kind of hate it for the unrelenting toxicity but there& #39;s no other online "community" for trans people and even without the pandemic only larger cities have actual irl trans communities.

Like I& #39;ve been off twitter for most of this week and I log back on for 5 min to post a pic and my feed is immediately filled with discourse and I feel worse for it. Please for the love of God just take a day off not every minor take needs to be the hill you die on https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥴" title="Woozy face" aria-label="Emoji: Woozy face">

For this to be a genuine community there needs to be stronger emotional boundaries, a willingness charitably interpret others, a willingness to decenter the self in critical discussion, and to treat accounts as people rather than a collection of takes to agree or disagree with.