I think there’s really just a lot of similiarites between black people being vocal about racism and trans women being vocal about transmisogyny, especially in spaces where talking about our experiences and understanding different levels of oppression and experiences is important.
Like, whenever black people center our selves in conversations of racism and anti-blackness, we’re often accused by other minorities of being racist, or being selfish, or hypervisable. We can’t talk about the privliege that most of the world has over us just by not being black without people taking it personally.
We’re often told to just get over it, and that we need POC solidarity more than anything.
But like, how can you expect solidarity if every time we attempt to be vocal about our issues, we’re being “divisive” or we’re causing a split with the community.
Why get angry at us for being vocal about our experiences?
Likewise, the same thing happens to trans women? Their hypervisibility is seen as a privliege, and not a result of the sheer amount of violence they experience. When they do try to center themselves in certain conversations, they’re often told that they’re pushing everyone elses concerns aside or ignoring them.
People take it personally.
It’s all, “we need to be unified as the trans community, but at the same time let’s bar trans women from talking about the shit that happens to them, and when they do try to talk about it, lets tell them they’re trying to split the trans community.”
There is just so, so many similiarites between how society gaslights black folks and trans women and trans femmes, and I think about how in America at least, some of the most prominent trans women were black.
Anyway, just my thoughts. It’s gas lighting, its emotional abuse, and it sucks.