I think I’m reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don’t even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib ‘accepting’ ones. I’m like 60% of the way to thinking ‘yeah I’m gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I’ll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord’. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we’re having a revolution, so like… isn’t this an equalizer? There’s also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You’d probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.

Obviously I’m a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren’t in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won’t work either when they see you as a freak from the start.

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    I don’t blame you. Idk the logistics, and I hate the idea of being a slumlord even assuming you don’t mean it in the negligent/absentee landlord sense. But you’re already doing more than I’m capable of right now, and it’s getting so bad out there. If you have a good chance to make it work, to make anything work that will help stem the tide of trans people ending up on the street or in restrictive/unwelcoming shelters, go for it. And honestly, reading this is making me reconsider some things about what I need/want to be doing.