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's 3am tweet becomes a discourse topic you loose friends over.

This isn't a real community and I kind of hate it for the unrelenting toxicity but there's no other online "community" for trans people and even without the pandemic only larger cities have actual irl trans communities.

Like I'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

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.