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Yes there is a difference between "trump said I have to call you bruce" which is what the original post is, but the people in the comments posting photos of the Bruce Jenner decathlon board game, or referring to her as "Mr Bruce that is" or making a fake book title "they still call me Bruce II: electric boogaloo" are where the transphobia is setting in.
Yes she's a dumbass, yes she is cheering on the leopards eating her face, yes those leopards are going after trans people, but that doesn't mean we get to act the same way transphobes do to insult and dehumanize trans people no matter how much we disagree with the trans person. Attack their ideas and their dumbassery, not their identity.
I agree, and I haven't seen many people doing that on this thread, so calling out the totality of lemmy.world users as "unmoderated transphobes" as the parent comment tries to do is forced and useless.
I'll go a step further and say that this kind of behaviour detracts from the main cause of trans rights, which many of the people here stand behind. Because if you call me a transphobe when all I'm trying to do is to call out your bullshit, what you're actually achieving is making me loose simpathy for your cause.