Things cis people often say when talking to trans people¹

archived here from original thread, and expanded upon. literally none of these are hyperbolic at all, i have personally witnessed every single one of these points being argued for.

• “you’re nearsighted? oh wow, have you gotten the surgery yet?”
• “idk, are you really nearsighted? you don’t act nearsighted to me”
• “okay so you say you ‘feel’ like everything is blurry. what does that mean? ive sometimes gotten dust in my eyes but i don’t see how you can just ‘feel’ nearsighted”
• “ugh… why are you ruining your beautiful face with those glasses? you look fine without them”
• “ugh… why are you ruining your eyes with those contacts? you’re ruining your eyes by putting them there”
• “ugh… i can’t believe anyone would mutilate their beautiful, natural, working eyes by burning them with lasers just because they ‘feel’ nearsighted. medicine and liberalism has gone too far”
• “can’t you just like, not see things blurry? it’s probably just that you’re not focusing your eyes correctly”
• “noooo don’t put glasses on ur so handsome”
• “humans didn’t have glasses, contacts, or laser surgery to transition to sightedness for millenia. therefore it’s all unnatural and bad”
• “oh, you don’t want to get the surgery? you’re not truly nearsighted then lol”
• “nearsightedness and farsightedness are just a way for millenials to feel special by adding labels onto themselves”
• “optometry is a fake science invented by (((them))) to weaken the white race”
• “sorry, your insurance doesn’t cover optometry, so you’ll have to pay for it out-of-pocket”
• “they’re doing laser surgery on 6-year-olds who think their eyes are blurry!”
• “if you wish to see 20/20 unassisted then why don’t you just wait until you die and reincarnate as a fully-sighted person?”
• “i have blurry vision and i just deal with it lol”
• “ugh, i can accept nearsighted and farsighted people, but ‘astigmatism’? you’re just inventing new diagnoses to explain why you need your little ‘accomodations’”

Contributed by others

• 0x10f at tech.lgbt: “All your friends wear glasses too. Must be peer pressure.”
• 0x10f at tech.lgbt: “Autistic people are more likely to identify as nearsighted, so they must be denied glasses.”
• sabik at rants.au: “What if you regret lasering your eyes?”²
• fabi at blahaj.zone: “By being nearsighted, you are limiting my personal freedom to not be nearsighted!”
• fabi at blahaj.zone: “Do I have to wear glasses now as well?”
• aemstuz at pol.social: “you’re just wearing glasses because it’s trendy to wear them! this has consequences on your eyes!”
• dym at dym.sh: “stop telling kids some eyes are different and need additional support above the «[x] has eyes»”
• dym at dym.sh: “i dont need your bad eyes in my gene pool”
• dym at dym.sh: “if your eyes not perfect, do you even need them? way too much hassle to deal with imperfection”
• dym at dym.sh: “yeah, my grandma had bad eyes and instead of complaining she always inviting other grandmas to her bookclub to just read to each other aloud — and sometimes they didnt even need books!”
• transbutterflyqueen at woem.men: “just squint! lots of people have blurry vision, and you don’t see them wearing glasses.”