If you use transphobia instead of transmisogyny when referring to the oppression of trans women, I need you to consider why.
Because it’s easier? Because you think it’s the same thing? Because you think it covers all bases?
Reconsider. Trans women face a different oppression than other trans people. We face oppression because we’re Trans Women. Yes, this is 2 oppressions on top of each other, transphobia and misogyny, but we face this specific oppression that other trans people and cis women cannot experience.
Many of the things you call out for being transphobic humor, have you noticed it’s especially pointed at trans women? Man in a dress, men wearing makeup, “effeminate men”(which, yes, is also homophobic), etc. Cis men joking about “men dressed as women”. I will not lie and say it doesn’t hurt other trans people, of course it does, it hurts all of us, but it is specifically targeted towards trans women and hurts us in a specific way that other trans people do not experience.
Let’s consider, if you are gay, homophobia hurts all gay people. But a person targeting a lesbian is lesbophobia, and while it can still harm you as a gay person, it is not targeting you, it is targeting lesbians. They face a different type of oppression other gay people do not experience, it does hurt you but not in the same way it hurts them. Yes, you COULD call this homophobia, but it’s towards a SPECIFIC type of gay person, lesbians, and not towards other gay people, as lesbians tend to be targeted very often even by other gay people.
So, just consider, we face a different type of oppression, it’s not the same. We have a word for that, it is wide-spread, and it’d mean much more to us if you could recognize that.
I especially encourage you to reblog this if you’re not a trans woman.
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