This response is so crazy because of how blatantly, openly hateful to trans women it is. the replier went on to immediately vaguepost about how trans women shouldn’t whine about the ways in which we’re oppressed. The post is framed as if it’s in response to Capnsoapy has said that trans women are the most oppressed trans people, but OP never said anything like that (even though she would be well within her rights to do that) — all she did was point out specific ways that trans women are targeted by transmisogyny and how that affects us.
This replier has revealed the smoking gun of anti-transfeminism discourse: even when transfems are speaking exclusively about our own experiences, with no comparison to anybody else’s, just mentioning the ways in which we are oppressed & marginalised is enough to be treated as an insidious transphobic force separating the community
All OP did was point out that trans women are scrutinised higher than TME people when it comes to sexual impropriety and that we are caricatured more often than represented in fiction. That’s it. Those two statements should be uncontroversial to anybody even slightly aware of the concept of transmisogyny.
So then why are trans women even mentioning our own oppression nigh-universally treated as nasty self-centred separatists? Why is it acceptable for people to literally misgender us whilst dismissing our oppression in the same breath as outright saying that discussing the ways in which trans women are oppressed is pointless & doesn’t help anybody? How do you all not see that as blatant, open hatred of trans women — you know, real trans women, who actually live in the real world, not the imaginary ones who never complain that TME people hypothetically support in their head?
To the average TME person, trans women are supposed to be pliable, agreeable, quiet if we are expected to be supported or helped in attaining our rights. Simply pointing out that we are treated with discrimination is enough to lose respect from a self proclaimed ally. We’re the fucking women of women.
