I hope this is not too off-topic, since it is about this subreddit. Anyway, I was really upset to read the comments in the post asking about Bailey Jay on the banner.
I have seen some amazing, progressive people on this subreddit and was secretly hoping people might be a little more open minded here than on the rest of the internet. Instead I see things are actually worse here, and people are happily using hate words like "trap", "tr*nny" and "chick with dick" etc. Hugs even called her a transvestite! I know this is Reddit and I know this is the internet, but I'm going to pretend it's only because of ignorance and issue a little PSA. I'm a trans woman so I know something about this.
The cost of transitioning from male-to-female (or the other way around) is prohibitively expensive, it costs in the range of $30K - $100K. Most trans people cannot afford this as it's extremely hard to get a job due to discrimination. This leads a lot of trans women to be forced to work in the porn industry (or choose suicide, about 50% do) despite not wanting to at all, because the need to transition is just that strong. People do not transition because of a sexual desire to look like the opposite sex, there is nothing sexual about it. The brain is developed in the womb separately from the body's sexual organs, if the brain develops the opposite gender to that of the sexual organs, you're left with a person who'll be very distraught about the way their body develops as they grow. The only way to cure the constant agony, is to transition to the correct gender. To then have to be objectified and called the gender of the body is so hurtful I can't even begin to describe it.
This post is probably going to get down-voted something fierce, but maybe one person will read it before it's gone and learn something. That'll all be worth it. Thank you for reading if you got this far!
Edit:
The responses to this post have been far better than I was expecting. Thank you all! Faith in this subreddit has successfully been restored.
By putting Bailey Jay in the banner I am not at all trying to hurt any feelings, I am very sorry if I did so. I know Tranny, trap etc are porn words, and a lot of people don't know that.
I am trans-woman myself and I 100% agree with your statement, tomorrow or later tonight I will change it back to the i2p guy.
thanks
-Astrid