Is it transphobic of me to completely filter out trans-related topics from all the media I consume? It’s just that there are so many topics I follow that I have to decide which ones I actually want to pay attention to. It’s not even that I have anything against the topic; I’ve just always been completely uninterested in it, because the concept of gender has simply never held any significance for me. It’s never been something that carried much weight for me; even in social interactions, I’ve always perceived the person I’m talking to simply as an individual – everything else was secondary.
Two questions:
Do you respect people’s pronouns when they tell you?
Do you believe trans people should have autonomy over their bodies like everyone else?
If the answer to both of those is yes, then you’re not transphobic. I don’t follow NASCAR, doesn’t make me car-phobic.