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You can also edit your comments, it would be preferred if you would change it so that you aren't using what many of us consider a slur.
Would it not be better to leave it as is to teach others? Censoring serves no purpose here and it would prevent people from learning
You can edit in a cross out with two tildas ~ surrounding the word and put the correct word next to it if that's your style. But it's still somewhat akin to using the n word for some of us.
It's not our word for how we describe ourselves/ what we transition for, when we transition, and it can have nothing to do with sex, mostly, we can be any sexuality.
That old language centers everything on the fact that people see us as sexual fetishes and not people. Transition is about gender, of which sex sometimes is not even a part, asexuality exists too. Thus the word transgender
Not disagreeing about the use of the word, just erasing a teaching moment. Fair enough regarding the editing choice though
And yet it's still the most upvoted comment, keeping a slur up that hurts many trans people, but sure the teaching moment is more important than being inaccurate and insulting, but keep patting yourself on the back.
It’s the most upvoted comment because many people don’t know it’s a slur. The only way that will change is with calm teaching moments like these.
It's also upvoted because it is a slur and bad actors like to chip in their support knowing it's a slur.
If you’d rather be angry than supportive then good luck
I haven't been angry. It should be changed
Then it wasn't to you, it was to the original commenter.
Nah, I’m ok with it.
You literally just made this up.
I watched it happen.
…you watched what? A known bigot slyly hover the up arrow with an evil sneer on their face?
Piss off troll.
I watched vote manipulation happen.
Alternatively you can collapse the comment and you no longer have to see it.
While this is true, editing posts to avoid controversy is weird. They wrote what they wrote and noone can change that. Can't unsay something, too. This also makes this conversation difficult to read for future passerbys.