I don't watch dropout but I'm doing some research to try and understand the "dropout excludes transfems" discourse more clearly and it is very funny how many responses I've seen that are like "I mean I'm trans but I'd rather they hire based on talent than just try to fill a diversity quota"
indistinguishable from conservative men saying women aren't funny lmao
very funny too how people think just being trans in general gives them some kind of special cred to dismiss claims made by trans women. we really are the women of women
I want to be careful not to play pointless and divisive games of oppression olympics, but it does seem to me that this is one of the common rhetorical tricks that justifies the exclusion and/or mistreatment of trans women in certain spaces. we say "this space excludes us as trans women" and the response is "what do you mean it isn't trans inclusive? look at all these TME trans people! you're just being a buzzkill"
I think the idea that this is divisive in the first place is kind of insidious, because our intent in this kind of situation is often to try and take down the barriers that prevent us from integrating and unifying with the larger queer community, but our criticisms of these barriers are taken as an attack, and are dismissed rather than seriously considered
transmisogyny, being a form of misogyny, is found to some degree in pretty much everyone, but those who do not want to confront this in themselves can easily wash their hands of it by saying "I'm not transphobic, I treat my trans(masc) friends well! you're just a crazy, angry feminist"
tumblr truly does work in such a way where you complain about a type of person and then they appear
did you miss the part where the claim was there aren't enough transgender women?
people seem incapable of understanding that something can be queer friendly in a broad sense but still exclusionary to trans women specifically. I don't know how much more clearly we can spell it out to you people 💀
