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So here it is: part two. Del 2. Part deux. Osa kaksi. часть вторая.

.....ok that was all google translated but anyhow.

I felt like making this because seriously guys, SERIOUSLY.

This was hard to translate. : ||| excuse minor grammar/spelling errors if there are any please

NOTE: I think that many people misinterpret what I’m saying in this piece! I didn’t mean that people who misgender or use terms such as “he’s still a girl down there” are transphobic, but that they use transphobic/cissexist language, which can easily be avoided it they just get education! Heck, nearly everyone misgenders trans people at some point before they understand the issue. I know trans people who use offensive terms; because that’s all they know. They’ve grown up in a cissexist environment and thus they use transphobic language… even about themselves! It’s pretty sad to witness. When I tell them they say things that sound offensive they usually get me right away though - because it’s pretty obvious that for instance “girl=vagina” is inappropriate when you are trans yourself.
This is why we need to educate others about the issue: that actually isn’t very complicated at all. People make trans seem more complicated than it actually is.
tl;dr: this comic is not about name-calling or saying someone’s a transphobe, but critisising inappropriate use of language. Those are two seperate things!
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*Chei-sama May 6, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
"They steal our tax money!" XDD If I had all that tax money, maybe I could afford a mastectomy!

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~AlekInexelsis Apr 27, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Not intending to go against what you or your lovely comic is saying, but I just wanted to point out there are trans folks who did use to be the gender they were assigned at birth. True, most trans people feel they've always been a gender unlike the one they were assigned, but as gender is fluid, it is valid for some trans people to have been/identified as their assigned gender before transitioning to another. A lot of trans people might not be comfortable with people thinking they 'used to be something else', but y'know... I just wanted to point out that it i s valid for other people. :3
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=SirPaahdin 6 days ago  Student General Artist
That is true! I should have included those people as well. I'm sorry about that!
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~SkApprentice Apr 22, 2012
I often get 'Why did you want to be a man?' But what annoys me is when people use the term 'wish'. 'They wish they were the other gender'
'Wish they were born in the body of the opposite sex' might possibly apply to some, then again- best thing to do is use terms around people that they themselves have told you they feel comfortable having used around them. Simple enough to talk to people.

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~jardindelanuit Apr 4, 2012
My exgirlfriend is in the process of changing hir sex to match hir gender. I've never thought ze's FTM and rereading hir letters and hir views about lesbians and men, I kind of doubt ze's always felt like a man. Maybe I'll get the opportunity to talk to hir about hir views on hir past, but what I wanted to say is, that it is in fact very complicated. If you consider everyone who's not cisgender to be transgender you get so many people under this term, that the common practice of treating transgender=transexual is just wrong. I understand what you want to say with this piece, but it also communicates an underlying message I find troubleing. It invalidates the experiences of people who did feel like their assigned sex but out of whatever reason changed. And it ignores gender queer people who don't feel the need to change their sex. I know that's not what you've intended but I just tell you how I perceive it. And maybe we disagree on some definitions but that just proofs my point, that this issue is more complex and complicated. So I can't be angry about people using wrong terms, I can only be angry if they are ignorant and don't even want to get it.

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~ratdust Mar 12, 2012
My mom said things EXACTLY ("gender change" / "he/she is a boy/girl but they want to be a man/woman to they") like that when talking about transpeople :/
It makes me want to fucking smack something.

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~Jenvas Feb 21, 2012
oh so many misunderstandings at that topic and this deals with the basic ones, as a transwoman its also very bad being seen as transvestite (which is something very different). and to the legal part, i remember how painfull it was when people at offices would call me 'mister', just cause i wasnt legally seen as woman then
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~beefyrae Feb 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You're awesome. :3

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~ZePoink Nov 27, 2011  Student Filmographer
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=SirPaahdin Dec 2, 2011  Student General Artist
"When you explain to someone that somebody is trans, HOW exactly do you say it other than “he used to be a girl”?"
"He was born with a vagina", "he's a transsexual man", "he used to live as a girl, but found out he was a transgender boy"... there are many ways to say it that aren't offensive! :) I think you're underestimating people's ability to understand trans. I didn't think that anyone in my school would understand before I came out, and I was right, most people didn't - for starters. Eventually they learned that transgender wasn't such a weird thing at all, and now I'm called "he" by people who didn't even know trans existed before they had me around.

And I don't intend to call you a transphobe! Using transphobic/cissexist language and actually being a transphobe is two different things. Calling a transgirl "he" is, in my humble opinion, using cissexist language, no matter how accepting you are of trans matters.

What's harmful about using terms such as "she changed her gender" is that it makes it sound as if gender is physical. It is very important to point out that what is commonly called "gender change" isn't about changing your gender, but correcting your sex so that it matches your gender. A common misunderstanding is that trans people are those who wake up in the morning and go "damn, it'd rock to be a chick!" Terms such as "gender change" reinforces this stereotype.
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