yea

that's lame... wtf

as bad as gay people being killed in the streets and being thrown into prisons. You weren't "innocent" in that situation, you were ill-imformed and you commited a hurtful action, maybe not knowingly, but you still did. What you should have done instead of instructively saying "I'M NOT TRANSPHOBIC!" is ask "why are you calling me that, what have I done that could have possibly deserved that" and then apologize once you have learned the harmful action you committed. Ignorance is not an excuse to live by and it's something you need to learn.

"calling innocent people homophobic is as offensive as being homophobic in my opinion.".

.......ok I'm going to assume you're young and very uneducated. From your story you didn't know something and you called Sam Smith the wrong pronowns and you got called transphobic. I mean SURE maybe you didn't MEAN harm but can you recognize that there's thousands of people who hate trans people and intentionally use the wrong pronowns in an attempt to hurt them? And you using the wrong pronowns effectively "blended in" with the bigots. Sure,maybe the person replying to you could have been more polite, but that person effectively said "Hey you're doing something incredibly offensive and hurtful right now, knock it off.

You apparently come from some country where gay people are harassed for even being outside, you know what that's like first hand, so to say "calling innocent people homophobic is as offensive as being homophobic in my opinion." Like somehow someone calling you a bigot is just ...

I mean it’s offensive cause like it’s rude to people who are actually retarded, but it’s not that bad and I don’t think it needs to be shouted on the streets if someone said it lmao. It’s not that big of a deal

dang

Yeah, I feel like it's also our fault to know learn abt it earlier, but my parents/teachers have never told me abt this kind of stuff so I never knew. :(

Copying what I said to Cry so you can read it

Ok I'm going to be as nice as possible and assume you're just very ignorant and I'm going to educate you. Sam Smith is nonbinary. That means they wish to go by "They/Them" pronowns as they don't feel like a guy and also don't feel like a girl. Referring to them as "He" is not only harmful, it's offensive and shoes that you're kinda a hateful person.

Take some steps to educate yourself.

bruh someone saw the messages that I sent you and seemed to get made because I didn't understand the Sam Smith thing. The person even blocked me. I feel bad because I actually don't know what my mistake was, guess I'm just a dumb 14-year old. :(

People at school use the offensive words that you mentioned like it's nothing which is really annoying and when I talk to them abt it they just laugh it off. Words like 'retard' are nothing compared to the words that my classmates use but I anyways just learnt to ignore as they clearly aren't going to learn. The world is weird.