How are you afraid of Trans folk?

Simply present fearlessness, and your life will be better. Roll unafraid in every situation and be set free.

A few years back a known guy from a game I play said something similar on twitter. Though he said it was specifically because he has had only bad experiences with transfolk so as a result he’s now literally scared of them/instantly gets a bad feeling interacting with a transperson.

Sooo many people cancelled him for it but I never saw the issue, you don’t control your fears and if anything it’s just confusing that we use the suffix -phobia for bigotry but in some cases it’s a literal phobia. If you interact only a few times with members of a small group and it’s always negative you’re almost guaranteed to end up with that reaction, and no one but the person themself can know how bad the fear is.

I have met a couple of people over the years that are scared of interacting with trans people because they don’t know how to act.

I mean, they do, because you just act like you would with anyone else. But they worry about fucking up, or how/whether to address transness. So they get all tense and awkward, and then they fuck up and say something dumb and get even more scared the next time they meet a trans person.

It isn’t just for trans folks! There’s people that get specific social anxiety around people of other races, gay people, even just people from a different part of the country or world. It’s the whole “I don’t wanna say/do the wrong thing”.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this was literally true for someone. Phobias aren’t rational by definition. I’m mostly over it now, but I have a phobia of buildings with high ceilings. I’m guessing it happened because I was in a scary situation as a toddler inside a theatre and my dumbass brain was like “CEILINGS = BAD”. Thanks brain, I really appreciate your help in saving me from the dire threat of seeing Cars 2 in theatre.

I’m afraid of them because they are all so beautiful and hot and I wanna hold their hands

Women fear me. Fish fear me. Men turn their eyes away from me as I walk. No beast dare make a sound in my presence. I am alone on this barren earth.

Okay who of you jumpscared this little guy?

I’m afraid of their power. The onion told me some can be in every bathroom everywhere all at once. I totally support them in that, but it’s also scary because what if I have to use the bathroom really bad!!