Fellas, we gotta talk seriously about me and my experience with transphobia homophobia as a white cishet Polish male. a thread

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When I first got into having ideas and politics around the age of 10, (I got interested early because of my autism), one of my main questions was what to do with members of the LGBTQ+ community. I had many far-right friends and a traditionalist Polish grandma, and I had observed

bigoted news sources which showed false statistics. Despite my mother and sister's attempts to fix my attitudes, I had built up my homophobic and transphobic ideals and found it hard to budge. As I grew up I began to grow out of these ideals, becoming friends with trans people

and gay people, and learning about my privilege and the struggles of these minorities. I was never racist, but I was bigoted in nearly every other way back then. I'm still trying to convert to open-mindedness and have been attempting to provide support to my LGBTQ friends, but

there's a problem. I still have homophobic and transphobic thoughts, and prejudice. I desperately want to stop it but my head will always tell me that I am doing something wrong by accepting these people. I'm trying my hardest to become an open-minded person and have been

deleting old homophobic and transphobic posts, but the influence of this era of bigotry and unacceptance is still affecting me today. Please, if I'm doing something wrong or offensive, forgive me and correct me please, I'm quite slow in learning and could use some help in making

sure that I leave this awful past behind. I need to put this out there to help you all with understanding my troubles of becoming an accepting person. If you are LGBTQ+ you are valid and I support you. Please endure the trouble I may cause as this is quite hard for me to deal

with, as my stubborn bigoted mind is being re-educated on these issues. I thank you for reading this, any questions related to this thread can be asked and will be answered. Have a wonderful day.