I'm fucking tired of people's critiques of the TMA/TME framework being "well technically I'm TMA because someone thought I was a trans woman and hate crimed me". Like yeah. Imagine what its like for actual trans femmes
having this happen to me repeatedly is why i realized the TMA/TME framework is so important, honestly. because in instances where i had been in physical danger because someone had assumed i was a trans woman, the situation was immediately defused by the confirmation that i wasn't one. and when this happened i was like. wow, that would have been really really really bad if i had been a trans woman. i wouldn't have had that get-out-safely card if i had been a trans woman. and this made me try to become more fierce in my advocacy for transfems and trans women, because. in this situation, i got to go home. a woman in my shoes might not have. if i can act as a shield for a transfem to be able to get home safely then i need to do that.
it just makes me feel crazy that there are so many TMEs who experience this, and instead of becoming bigger advocates for transfeminism, they pay the bigotry forward, and use the experience as an excuse for that bigotry.
This is transfeminism!
