Thread by @lone_rides

I don’t know who needs to hear this but I do not have to validate your existence or accept your lifestyle.

The only thing I owe you as a human being is the respect I would give any other human being.

But validating you? Accepting you? No.

“You have to use my pronouns.”

No, I don’t. You don’t have a right to not be offended.

“You can’t judge my sexual orientation!”

You’re a trans drag queen who is sexualizing kids. You’re a pedophile.

Yes, I’ll judge you.

“You have to accept me!”

Nope. I don’t have to accept you. Acceptance means agreement. And there are quite a few lifestyles I do mot agree with that have nothing to do with your mental illness.

I don’t accept blatant liars.
I don’t accept relationship cheaters.
I don’t accept violent or angry people.

You being whatever you are has nothing to do with me so yes, I am free to not accept you.

People that force people to accept them are very much tiny authoritarians waiting their chance to rule over their fellow humans.

So no, I don’t accept you.

“But suicide rates of (insert group) are skyrocketing.”

I guess making the young people caught in your trap think that everyone must love them for themselves was a bad idea, since now they see you’re a liar.

Maybe you lying to them was what killed them.

Whether you’re a young gay man or a straight woman, it is no one’s job to validate your existence.

We all seek it. We all want it. But it is not our right to have that validation. And demanding people give it to you harms them and you.

And stop with this “you’re literally trying to kill us!”

Not letting a bio male who still has a penis use the restroom with an 11 yr old girl isn’t “trying to kill” him.

When you have to resort to hyperbole to win your argument, you have no argument.

Now, I will be kind. I will be respectful. I will not purposefully offend you.

I’m very much “live and let live”.

But if you demand my validation or acceptance, we’re gonna have a problem.

Be cool. I’ll be cool. And we can all live in peace.