How the Mentally Ill See Transphobia

Text on the meme

Hi, nice to meet you. I'm a butterfly Hello, caterpillar. You were born a caterpillar and will always be a caterpillar Hi, nice to meet you. I'm a butterfly No, you're not Frank. You're a snail. Those aren't wings, it's your shell and it looks infected. HOW THE MENTALLY ILL SEE TRANSPHOBIA REALITY

What it means

A cartoon contrasts a fanciful view of transphobia, where a snail claims to be a butterfly and is affirmed, with a supposed “reality” in which the snail is mocked and denied. The joke satirizes transphobic arguments by portraying them as absurdly misidentifying a snail’s shell as butterfly wings, while the bottom captions frame the contrast as a critique of how mentally ill people supposedly perceive transphobia.

Objects

butterfly / бабочка snail / улитка caterpillar / гусеница butterfly wings / крылья бабочки snail shell / раковина улитки stool / табурет pink background / розовый фон speech text / текст реплик cartoon drawing / карикатурный рисунок