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Trans woman harassed on Deadlock happy her voice training is working (hard-drive.net)

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Local woman Skye Meadows, better known by her in-game display name TheValidValkyrie, has found gender affirmation in an unexpected place: the voice chat of early access MOBA shooter Deadlock.

“It was really weird,” said Meadows. “I was calling for support left in voice chat and one of my teammates just called me a bitch. Later in the game that same guy tried to 1v3 and asked if I was ‘too busy making sandwiches’ to help him when he died. It was annoying at first, but then I realized he was harassing me because I sound like a girl.” [...]

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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (10 children)

You joke, but I've seen and heard about similar situations of misogynists being weirdly trans inclusive.

People call that "gender ewwphoria".

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I love the term lol

My most affirming moments as a trans woman have been people saying sexist shit to me because they see me as a woman.

It's not nice, but I know they're being honest about me passing lol.

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