I've been thinking about something for the last couple of months, and the more I do the more it fucks me up. Last October I accidentally found the main and NSFW account of another trans woman I had gotten to know in a Discord server. She was, at the time, 18 and, if my memory serves correctly, had turned that age not long ago at that time.
I first found her main. It was full of TRF/Baeddel shit. A lot of hate and vitriol against trans men and transmascs. Her NSFW account was even worse. I dont have many screenshots, they're all censored and she deactivated her account at some point for reasons I dont know, but here is what I did send to people to vent:
Keep in mind, in these screenshots this person is 18 years old, which makes the middle post especially horrifying to me. The rest is just really nasty, and the account also had a lot of rape and age regression stuff on it alongside the incest and loli/pedophilia already shown in the screenshots.
What I want to say with this post is not that this young trans woman is a bad person. My point is that the culture that has developed around the TRF/Baeddel crowd within the transfem community is incredibely dangerous towards especially young trans girls not only in the way that they are at risk of being victimized by the predatory people that exist within those circles, but also that all of this shit will be normalized to them. And since what is being normalized includes literal actual pedophilia, there is sadly the very real chance that the people that grow up under the influence of this kind of vile crap will go on to hurt people.
Alongside this, but equally as important, is the fact that especially young trans girls will be taught to hate trans men and transmascs. This will fuck up and tear the community apart in ways that break my heart. Especially young trans people, and especially in these times need each others support instead of being taught to hate "the evil TMEs" for being the wrong kind of trans person. Meanwhile, young trans men and transmascs will only be pushed deeper into the closet if they look at online trans spaces and see this kind of blind hatred directed at them. This could literally kill young trans people by making them repress who they are because a bunch of theorybrained assholes on tumblr that have a wildly innacurate perception of what the lives of trans men and transmascs actually look like decided that transfeminism meant being a transphobe. Its hard to explain just how angry that makes me.
Thats what scares me the most about these people the more I think about it. What they do and will do to the youngest members of our communities, those we should arguably protect the most from predatory shit exactly like that pushed by a lot of these TRFs under the banner of being progressive or transfeminist.