You'd think disabled people, blind people among them would be the first to sympathize and be nice to transgender and non binary people.

I mean, it would make sense to be, right? Both of these groups are a minority, both are finding it hard to live day to day and being accomodated. Both of these groups are facing discrimination to some extent. Both of these groups have accessibility concerns. Not for the same things and not with the same intensity, but the fact remains that both are impacted.

So, naturally, I expected blind people to care. I expected them to be supportive, even if they don't understand what transgender people are going through, because that's what they ask of other people around them. To be understanding and supportive. I was proven wrong, yet again. #blind #disability #nonbinary #transgender

I hang out on a couple of teamtalk servers with a few blind people. Today I wanted to share with them my posts about the Linux GUI and audio, so that's what I nearly ended up doing.

But then the conversation kind of derailed a bit as I waited to share the links to my threads, and somehow, the topic of transgender and non binary people came up. One of them literally said this: "Oh yeah, and then you have those people with their bullshit of being non binary and their inclusive writing." There was a very, very long silence, and then, everyone agreed. Except me. I didn't make it known, but I entirely disagreed. That might have something to do with the fact I'm non binary and transgender. And it went further than this, as they made fun of mtf and ftm people.

In the end, I ended up not sharing my threads. Because that would have led them to my profile, on which I'm very firmly stating that I'm transgender non binary, and I just... Ugh.

How can you be that thick? How can you rant and bitch about not being shown support in your life, and make fun of others for basically wanting to be free to exist? I'm sick of this. I really, really am.

French isn't a gender neutral language. But we're trying to slowly make it neutral, and it's thanks to people like this that all our efforts serve nothing, because they will keep misgendering us. It's even easier in french, as literally everything has a gender.