Imagine these animals telling a small child how it's good that their mother is now dead.
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I believe it's a slur for trans people.
Wild enough, back in like the late 2000s, it was trans people on Something Awful who coined the term. It was just trans + goon.
At some point transphobes picked up on it completely unaware of the etymology and now I've seen so many false etymologies for the word.
But yeah at this point it's not "hiding" a slur. It's become a slur itself.
Oh I thought it was a slur dreamed up by 4chan, like pol or something.
It's in active use by trans people on /lgbt/
If anything that just makes its status as a slur more clear.
I find the use of "tr*nny" by enby people (and in general) much more problematic TBH
I dont think it has to be a contest.
Valid, was not my intention to start one 😅
I think it caught on in popularity when the Alt-Right was doing the whole "clown world" thing. "Trans people are just clowns in makeup" > clowns are like cartoons brought to life > trans people are cartoons > toon + trans = new slur.
A slur for trans people derived from a racist slur against black people. Black people always catching strays 😔