I am sorry you experienced such personal attacks, and am sure you are not transphobic or a bigot.
I think it is possible to act in a discriminatory way without having had any discriminatory intentions. I know I have, and I've been angry and defensive and hurt when it was pointed out to me. I think it is possible to express concern and a desire for a more inclusive slogan, however long the old one may have been in circulation, without bowing to personal attacks, endorsing harassment, or condoning bullying as legitimate behaviour, though obviously I don't know how said concern/desire was expressed to you. I think it would have been a mistake to re-use a slogan that clearly had made some people feel erased/excluded, however horribly they may have behaved about said feelings.
I understand the exclusionary issue with requiring a man to be accompanied by a partner to attend a poly event, but how is that heteronormative? Presumably one man could be accompanied by another man as his partner.
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I think it is possible to act in a discriminatory way without having had any discriminatory intentions. I know I have, and I've been angry and defensive and hurt when it was pointed out to me. I think it is possible to express concern and a desire for a more inclusive slogan, however long the old one may have been in circulation, without bowing to personal attacks, endorsing harassment, or condoning bullying as legitimate behaviour, though obviously I don't know how said concern/desire was expressed to you. I think it would have been a mistake to re-use a slogan that clearly had made some people feel erased/excluded, however horribly they may have behaved about said feelings.
I understand the exclusionary issue with requiring a man to be accompanied by a partner to attend a poly event, but how is that heteronormative? Presumably one man could be accompanied by another man as his partner.