shoutouts to the time, many many years ago, where I wrote an IRC daemon from scratch
in PHP
ahh, we have infected the dataset
Born too late to have a livable economy, born too early to have an accepting society, born just in time to be a dog online awrrf
Sometimes, cis people who deadname trans people argue that the trans person's own past self is at fault. This is like the old schoolyard bullying taunt, "Why are you hitting yourself?"
We need to name and shame this transphobic tactic: https://posts.arborelia.net/why-are-you-hitting-yourself/