#structural transmisogyny

[undeadtransfeminist]

"it's transandrophobic/exorsexist/intersexist to discuss the oppressive binaristic system the current dominant forces of society place upon you because you're MAKING A BINARY!"

I'm not making it, dumbass. Nor am I the one forcing any of us into the categories. I'm observing the dominant class doing this, and commenting on it and dissecting it. You're doing his work for him. Silencing and policing the very people he wants to eradicate, and through that trying to destroy the critique of that oppressive system in the first place. I'm no stranger to epistemological violence. The entire history and traditions of my ancestors are nearly extinct because of it.

Y'all would have a heart attack if you saw how much I wish misfortunate upon all men/whites/cisgenders/straights/Westerners on discord. Unless you're fine with that type of vent, but seemingly not TME people. Wonder why that is.

[valeriekeefe]

Reminder, Cisfeminists: There’s a Market for Romantic Access, and You’re Demanding Cash

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-women-say-they-wont-date-a-man-over-this-one-financial-issue-2017-04-07

[gwenloses]

A large amount of trans women are economically coerced into SW, because there just are not a lot of jobs outside that field that will take us. I work full-time at a grocery store and feel incredibly lucky, because it means if I decided to do lewd content it would be a willing choice instead of one forced on me.

Half of my friends are SWers, and of them more than half do it because they don't have other options. Some of them have retired, and come back to sw because it's the only way they can escape abusive situations.

[valeriekeefe]

Trans women have to come out of the closet to earn a patina of respect from cisfeminists. Trans men don't.

This is even more problematic when you consider that coming out for most trans people isn't a simple matter of making a statement. It requires, often, a long, build up, the emotional capacity to assert and reassert one's self, and frequent dismissal if one's body isn't presenting the way one intends yet.

So when cisfeminist discussion excludes those CAMAB people who are nominally cis, often it serves to deny women a place in which they can explore themselves, a place in which female consciousness can be raised.

This is not a trivial matter, when the median age of transfeminine transition lags the median age of transmasculine transition by more than a decade.

This is not a trivial matter as we discover higher and higher trans prevalence. The trans community was easy to dismiss when we are billed as 1 in 30,000... 1 in 63, however, as the GIRES sought-transition-medicine incidence numbers indicate as a lower bound is much harder to ignore.