#look if a young trans person manages to escape Texas to the Bay Area they’re going to run up into this

[codewitch]

Look the “being misgendered for having short hair” is slightly more common than just the dorms of a women’s college, it’s not a widespread issue but it’s an issue I encounter frequently within my own community (20-30something queers living in San Francisco/Oakland). You’ll encounter these issues in leftist enclaves like NYC, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. Writing it off as PURELY something that happens in just a select few colleges is dismissive. And just because someone is having a localized issue (still localized within highly populated areas) that “could be worse” doesn’t mean they have an issue that is affecting them.

And for what it’s worth, when it happens I generally direct these discussions towards people within my own community but like what happens in smith college, or in my case uc Berkeley, does not always stay in smith college. I wish it did. Because there are even worse “leftist queer college issues” that do real harm to the community that have not stayed within dorm room walls. I am 30 years old and I haven’t spoken to college students in years I wish I didn’t have to deal with this stuff.

We for real for real for realsies have to popularize the term smith college problem . And normalize telling people they’re having a smith college problem . And if you’re always posting about smith college problems it is your duty to normalize going oh okay never mind once people tell you that you are smith college problem posting