A lot of people either vouching for trans skaters or saying they're not exactly sure what a trans skater would say.
So here's a resident shalomie trans skater to chime in!
It's ultimately a personal matter with each trans person. Just as GAY has the right to say whether a Brit calling smokes fags hits a nerve or not.
For me, tranny hits a nerve. It's still a very raw slur. It's just an awkward word to hear no matter what.
Granted, tranny in skateboarding is simply a truncation of the word transition.
BUT. It is disingenuous to claim that cisgendered skaters don't get their rocks off saying the word tranny. You're lying if you don't want to admit that.
It's more the gravity to the word, regardless of why it's used in skateboarding. Being trans in skateboarding (and the world) is still a fresh taboo - so do your trans community members a favor and exercise caution when using the term. Some people will laugh, others will be emotionally crushed. That's not on us.
P.S. the inevitable onslaught of replies on ignore that will follow this post. Save it. Go jerk off into a pillow or something. I really don't give a fuck.
Shalom. Thank you to so many on here for having our backs.
Couldn't have said it better. I'll chime in too as an enby (NB for the uninitiated).
Just because tranny has been normalized within the context of skating transition doesn't make it any less a slur. Is it really that fucking difficult to call it transition? Like really. Skaters will break their back trying a trick a hundred times in a row but are too lazy to add one more syllable to a word to not make it a vicious, dehumanizing slur. Do you people understand that trans folk get beaten to death fairly regularly and have that word shouted down at them as they are being murdered?
I usually avoid threads like these whenever Leo Baker or trans issues are discussed because it always brings out all the new users with low post counts that are itching to give their hot take they learned from watching alt-right youtube videos all day every day.
Now, that being said, do I think that every single person who uses that word is transphobic? No, I don't. But I do think if you already know its a slur and continue to use it then you are ignorant, lazy, and beyond entitled. You just sound dumb, and if you mention that you are a "tranny skater" to people outside of skateboarding, they too will think you dumb. And all things considered, there are those in the trans community that thinks differently than me or Armin. I think some of that is internalized transphobia and trying to overly please cis sensibilities. Again, as Spunkchild said in his post, we are not some universal monolith that you can pigeonhole into having one idealistic lexicon.
Shalom to those in this thread that look out for trans folk. We see you and appreciate you. And wheelbite in the rain to slaps resident transphobes who have 0 ability to discuss this topic respectfully.
Topic: Is using the word tranny when referring to transition offensive? (Read 11708 times)