it doesn't seem like you've actually answered anyone asking why transfems who have been abused by other transfems can't submit. they're the most common targets, they would be even more susceptible to the silencing effect, and you've already got 99.5% of the population included, so why not include transfem victims as well? the specificity of your scope comes from the 0.5% of abusers you focus on, not the 99.5% of victims, so I doubt it's that. are you perhaps worried that, if you did open it up to transfems, most submissions would be from transfems? what is the rationale here?
ook, i’m not going to lie to you, you’re not wrong.
if i opened the floodgates to everyone, the sheer volume of stories about transfem-on-transfem violence would completely drown out everything else. i’d lose the focus on what i’m trying to highlight—this specific, toxic, "secret rot" of power dynamics where transmasc people are getting pulverized, silenced, and then told we don't exist. if this space just becomes another place for that cycle to repeat, the specific voices i’m trying to pull out of the darkness are just going to get erased all over again.
and honestly? it’s fucking gutting. i know it happens. i’ve watched my friends and my lover go through the absolute worst of it, and it keeps me up at night. it’s harrowing. it’s depressing as hell. if i had to curate a feed that was just a constant, endless scroll of transfems hurting transfems, i don’t know if i’d survive it. it’s already killing me to read what i have to read.
but this project isn't supposed to be a total census of every single abuse case in the entire trans community. if i tried to make it that, it would just collapse under the weight of its own trauma.
the scope is the scope because that’s the corner of the room i’m trying to clean up. it’s not about excluding transfem victims because i don't believe them or because i don't care, it's because if i don't maintain this boundary, the point of the whole thing just evaporates.