My roommate is transmasc. We were just talking about their reluctance to use the men's bathroom even as they "pass" more and more as a man, which is starting to cause people to give them concerning looks when they use the women's. They said they still use the women's because they feel more comfortable there. Which is fine, we shouldn't have gendered bathrooms anyway. But I told them "you might not feel as safe when you eventually get 'accused' of being a trans woman in the women's bathroom." To which they replied "oh, I'll lust lift my shirt and show them my mastectomy scars. That'll prove I belong in there."
Oh but "everyone is subjected to transmisogyny," right?
This is the point of TME/TMA. This is why non-transfeminine people aren't subjected to transmisogyny.
I can't fall back on my AGAB to "prove I belong" in women's spaces.
"if someone confronts me about being a trans person in the wrong bathroom, i'll just expose myself to them" is an incredibly TME thing to say
Using the men's restroom because that's where I naturally feel the most comfortable as a feminine person.
Oh no! A man has confronted me because I am visibly out of place what with my jiggly caboose and my use of moisturizer and so forth
But there's no problem! I'll just lift my skirt and show him a little special something that will prove we're more alike than different, and he'll soon see that because we have a shared —
Ah, I'm in the hospital somehow














