“Erasure is not inherently a privilege; constant misgendering and other manifestations of transphobia unequivocally do harm to all trans people”
and
“Whether it comes from harmful misgendering or not, occupying the social position of a GNC cis woman affords me privileges that are not available to transfems due to structural forces of transmisogyny. In fact, many of the privileges I do enjoy are available to me BECAUSE trans women are placed below me in gender-based social hierarchies, regardless of ‘passing’ status”
are transfeminist stances that can and MUST coexist among this emergence of a reactionary trans MRA movement. Transmascs are subject to a lot of misogyny and transphobia, but we are not the target of transmisogyny, and we do not experience some secret version of transphobia that transfems don’t also already experience.
Stay tuned for the Substack essay.
