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Honestly, I'm tired of toxic positivity invading everything. I'd rather people grow thicker skins when it comes to speech. actual hate speech (such as suggesting murder of specific groups) and things of that nature should absolutely be banned; but insults are meant to be demeaning, that's the point of them. Thankfully I hear children in the streets calling each other gay, fat, ugly as an insult, so I think they'll be okay. But my viewpoint is probably skewed as fuck, because I've been on the internet since I was 14 and have had to deal with the worst of it since day 1. Misgendering and/or Deadnaming someone isn't hate speech.
Toxic positivity is so different than just freely allowing people to be complete bigoted assholes I have to assume you’re missing it this much on purpose
Being "complete bigoted assholes" are how we, as a society keep errant members in check. It's a feature of the tribalism inherent in humanity. Scoffing at someone being a thief, for example - we don't consider that "bigoted", only because we all mostly agree that it's bad.
Trans people are errant society members who need to be kept in check by completely bigoted assholes?
I mean, that's what society is attempting to do, yes.