The Labyrinth of Reasonable Concerns
Talking to a transphobe is not recommended for many reasons. Prolonged exposure to that level of stupid can have a detrimental effect on your will to live. Toxic transphobia can also cause you to lose your hair, your friends, and, in some circumstances, your marriage.
If you continue to talk to them, the transphobe may mistake you for an ally and invite you to join them in the Labyrinth of Reasonable Concerns.
This infernal maze is where transphobes spend most of their leisure time, wandering the dark corridors, muttering angrily to themselves about Mermaids and trying to shut out the screams of logic being tortured.
At the entrance to the Labyrinth is a sign that simply reads ‘What is a woman? Find out inside!’ Of course, the joke is that you won’t find anything of the sort, just endless twisting sewers full of lost souls.
The irony of this place is that the transphobes built it themselves. It was supposed to be the ultimate trap for trans people. “Can you define a woman? Ha! Then how can you be one? Riddle me that, trans woman.”
Instead, when confronted with the ‘What is a Woman?’ question, trans women shrugged and carried on with their day. So, sooner or later, the transphobe grows weary of being ignored, decides to march into the Labyrinth, Theseus-style, and immediately gets…
