Being on transfeminist Tumblr right now is like learning about milkshake duck explicitly through the duck being a bigot, watching the video of the duck saying a slur, then watch the duck try to recontextualize the slur through a new flavor of milkshake across 3 different videos the very next day while still saying slurs in interviews. Though I think this metaphor is being stretched too far so instead of hiding what I mean behind a kitchy name that instantly becomes useless for discussion I'll just say it.
Dump your Puppygirl is one of the worst articles I've ever read and the 3 follow-ups do not mitigate that fact, more writing isn't gonna fix the self hatred death spiral that Ms. Knight's writing has sent me and countless other women through over the past 2 days, the fact someone could supposedly have experienced what trans women tend to experience, especially in our capitalist misogynistic society which hates and kills girls, and come out of it with a take as callous as "disabled hurt women just need to try harder because their best isn't enough and their attempts at survival in a world that hates them are the same as a douchebag boyfriend in Atlanta or Jeff bezos stealing labor just wearing the costume of womanhood" is just a moment of cruelty and vitriol I didn't expect to see in my lifetime, especially not from one of the few spaces I've found to generally have healthy attitudes and uplifting messages for trans women. This post started as a jokey sardonic jab at everything going on, but I can't in good conscience make that post without it becoming this one.
But I hate to have the takeaway of this post be a simple "fuck you" so instead I'll say this, don't read Tara Knight's work, but do go support actual transfeminists like Fleshengine, Sailatina, Storyweavingspider, and Misstrogen
-Trish, alter and primary caretaker of the Bouquet System