JbDubs: “Don’t look at me like I’m a two dollar tranny.”

Cute–I guess–in a “wow–another ‘out and proud‘ man is dissing trans women” kind of way.

Was “$2 tranny” even necessary to make this song or was it just thrown in to sound edgy? You don’t honestly associate the performance in this video with trans women, right? Why connect it to them with the slur? How did that seem like an awesome idea? Have you missed all the other instances of that word getting called out?

I’m not angry. I’m just really disappointed. Thousands of people came to this site alone to read about Neil Patrick Harris’ transphobic TV segment–and there are likely hundreds of other more popular examples across the Interwebs not just of why we should confront transphobia, but why we should confront racism, homophobia, ableism, sexism, or anything else that’s making fun or profit off someone’s experience. It can’t be news to you that people take offense when you degrade the social group they belong to, right?

“Tranny” is over. It isn’t clever, accurate, funny, harmless, or appropriate to describe anyone. Please stop using it out of respect for the people who have it hurled at them proceeding an attack, and for the people who have it applied to them because of dehumanizing stereotypes about people with a private medical condition. Then please do your part to educate your community.

cross-posted from Trans Femmergy