Please learn about intersectionality

[daughter-of-sapph0]

tranny isn't your word, it belongs to trans women

[daughter-of-sapph0]

you wanna call yourself a tranny so bad because you've never been called it by your father beating you for being anything less than pure masculinity at 7 years old

you wanna call yourself a tranny because you never cut yourself after seeing your friends and family laugh at a caricature made specifically to mock you

you wanna call yourself a tranny because you've never been alone and isolated while having people mock your existence online and misquote incorrect suicide statistics at you

you wanna call yourself a tranny so bad because you've never felt so unloved and worthless that you would lower yourself to suffer through an abusive relationship because you feel like that's all you deserve

you wanna call yourself a tranny because you've never had to fight to be respected as a woman, you've never had to demand to be treated like a human being when everyone else sees you as nothing more than an object - either one that should be eradicated or simply just a sex toy. most of the time its both

you wanna call yourself a tranny so bad because you've never suffered like the tranny has.

[mousidy]

as a trans man trying to make sense of the situation

transmisogyny is the intersection between transphobia and misogyny, im p sure. ive experienced misogyny since i was a kid yea, and now that im openly transgender i get oppressed for that too. i commonly get associated with my asab to no ones surprise and get transphobic jokes made at my expense, relating to my childhood experiences as a girl. is this not transmisogyny? /genq

it's transphobia and it's misogyny, but it's not transmisogyny. transmisogyny refers to the intersection of transphobia and misogyny faced specifically by trans women, which is very distinct from the one faced by trans men. because the two intersections are so dramatically different, the terminology is different too. trans men use their own terms to discuss their intersection

[dakigivemethestrength]

Hot take for the coiner of transandrophobia, but I don't think trans men are female.

I'm not revoking jackshit from a trans man, because he was never female (and therefore is not the intended recipient of female empowerment). This is trans 101. These fucks can't even get that right.

I don't think any man has the right to take revenge, but he will 9/10 times do it anyways. If something literally kills him, then it's not revenge, it's self-defense. Big difference.

I think the men who are abusers statistic is already way too high, and that men actually really need to be empowered to NOT hurt people.

If you as a man want to be celebrated for taking out your anger, they literally made the military just for you.

[kaban-bang]

"When he comes to you bleeding and begs for rest before he goes back out to the battle" Oh my god it's literally this image lmao

[autistic-dazai]

[decompose1]

girls i know accusations of racism can occasionally be falsely leveraged against trans women in order to discredit them and this Is Bad but this does notttt actually mean that you can just ignore the racism in the community like it doesn't exist. because racism exists in all communities and lately it is Nightmarish to be a nonwhite doll. i have experienced really glaring racism in several transfem spaces and there's been this really kind of awful attitude or like idea enforced that i shouldn't talk about it because speaking up could socially murder another tgirl. and that's really bad. that's really really bad. like it's really bad that i'm hesitant to even post this because of the scrutiny we're under. and yes the fact that it is so dangerous to speak up is because of the massive amounts of surveillance & transmisogyny we're facing but that just CAN'T mean racism gets a pass, okay? BIPOC girls are not expendable and you can't keep throwing us under the bus.

but i know calls to action without any kind of instruction aren't very helpful so here are some tips that i think you can easily do yourself with your own circles:

1) Staring off simple: Look around. Are there any BIPOC girls in your friend group, or are all of you white? Why? Do you often joke about everyone in your friend group being white? Why is that funny?

What to do: Examine why there are no people of color in your group. Examine why people of color may not be comfortable enough to hang out with you & your friends. Correct these, where possible. Do some reading on anti-racism. Talk to more people.

2) Examine how you talk about people of color & racism. Are you downplaying racism in your community? Are you treating women of color as dramatic or unreasonable for bringing it up? Do you find yourself only defending white dolls, always defending them from claims of racism, but never defending BIPOC dolls? Why?

What to do: Think about why you care more about accusations of racism than protecting the women of color in your community. Make sure you're making your space safe for BIPOC girls. Speak openly and loudly about anti-racism. Hold your sisters accountable- they should be apologizing when they say or do something wrong.

3) This one might sound silly, but as we often meet each other over fandom and roleplay- how are nonwhite characters treated in your circle? Are they always aggressive, angry, or antagonistic? Do you find yourself putting nonwhite characters in more roles like cops, dictators, sex pests, etc?

Additionally: If your circle shares sexual content, is there a lot of art where there's a pale/blonde character on the bottom, and a darker character on top? Are you and your friends always drawing darker characters as more dominant, more sexually aggressive, or promiscuous, while the white/pale characters are more innocent, submissive, modest, or clueless?

What to do: Examine how the way your group approaches fandom & art with nonwhite characters in it may make people of color uncomfortable. Examine why your art may make people of color feel unsafe or awkward hanging out with you. It's not wrong to have the occasional character of color be more antagonistic or dominant, but it's a problem when this is a pattern. If it's happening All The Time, question why!

4) Be honest with yourself: Did this post make you feel defensive? Does it make you feel defensive when people say something you did was racist? Why?

If a person of color tells you your actions were racist, they trust you to improve. I don't tell people they're being racist if i think they're going to hurt me for bringing it up. I know many like me. Don't prove us wrong- take these criticisms into account and work on it. You aren't cursed to be some kind of terrible bigot forever because you messed up- panicking without action is useless. Just be sure you examine the behavior in question and work to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. Okay?

I believe all these things are easy enough to check with yourself & your friends. Please work on making yourself & your group safe for girls who aren't white.

[decompose1]

yahh ok so. this is both why i made this post and why the first sentence is like that. sometimes my fellow dolls fuck up and hurt me, right, but they're more likely to get hurt if i say anything and that's EXACTLY what causes this issue. if i speak up, im risking ruining their lives the second TMEs smell blood in the water, which causes this horrible awful cycle where i don't feel comfortable speaking up when other trans women are racist to me because i am so afraid of TMEs killing them about it when all i wanted was for them to make things right. This is BAD. This is actively causing trans women of color to hide when they get hurt and racist whites in the community to take advantage of our fear. It's a HUGE problem, and this is the very SPECIFIC problem i was addressing in this post.

So on that note-

White TMEs have harmed me leagues worse than white transfems. Do not take this post to mean you're somehow better. You aren't. You are in fact so much worse that i don't feel comfortable even discussing this with you because i don't trust you not to kill me if i do. The only reason i made this post and addressed other trans women specifically with it is because i want to believe my sisters will listen to my cries. That's why i didn't address the rest of yall

[quastions-i-dont-ask-on-main]

People say "intersectionality was bastardized to talk about how men are affected" about trans men because "the original isn't about that because it's about how women with other identities are treated" but like. Intersectionality was coined because black women thought feminism was too white and there was not enough thought into how being a black women affected that and the specific ways that being a black women was punished by society, because the original feminist theory only considered white women, so they were expanding on that. Saying "trans men are oppressed because they're men" isn't bastardizing intersectionality because it's literally about how you cannot untie transmascs' manhood from their transness and the same way femininity is different in black women, transmascs' masculinity is different from cis men and they're affected by things cis men aren't affected and things cis women aren't affected by and they're affected by misogyny in different ways than cis women are and in ways that heavily mix with transphobia that's. Like. Textbook intersectionality. Because you cannot untangle the trans from the man the same way you cannot untangle the black from woman and put both in neat boxes.

Plus I've seen a lot of TERFs use the exact same principle on why feminism isn't for trans women. They used to say that feminism wasn't for trans women because they were raised as men therefore they didn't have the forming experiences to have a stake at feminism and not they're saying trans men can't talk about intersectionality because the original was about (ignoring black people) women. Those same people saying trans men can't use intersectionality totally ignore that the term was firstly coined by black women and they'll say well since it's for women, of course (white) trans women can apply that. And that's hm. Not good y'all.

If you agree that intersectionality can be expanded to white trans women because even though they're white they have different experiences than white cis women but deny the expansion for trans men idk what to tell you.

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Intersectionality - Wikipedia

[milliebobbyflay]

so you are saying a man would still have "privilege" over a woman if he had all of his arms and legs and hands chopped off by a vile machine?

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Certified Intersectionality Post.

[thehalcyoneffect]

BTW if you call yourself a transfeminist you HAVE to get educated on racial intersectionality. It is not optional. The fact that the transfeminist movement is largely on Tumblr, a site that continues to delete every single Black user it possibly can, has made it so that this site is overrun with white transfems who fall into the exact same trap as the tme transmisogynists we speak out on.

NEVER let yourself think that you are immune to bigotry. NEVER. Just because the movement as a whole pledges racial justice, doesn't mean that you aren't actively harming Black people, both in our community and outside of it.

[transsexual-feminism]

This is transfeminism!

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Certified Intersectionality Post.

[aceynk]

i think it would serve the entire movement to just keep in mind that transfeminism is an application of intersectional feminism. we will get nowhere unless racism, anti-Blackness, ableism, etc. are dealt with within the movement and recognized in transfeminist thought. you cannot abandon intersectionality without abandoning transfeminism.

[aceynk]

also. get more materialist NOW

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Certified Intersectionality Post.

[mousidy]

"we're all faggots in the eyes of the state!" "we all have it just as bad!"

ok. wage gap

source

like. come on now

trans mennnn pspspsps understand your relative privilege over your transfem sisters and use it to support and uplift us instead of pretending not to have the structural leverage necessary to harm us. ooooo you know you want to build queer solidarity

[mousidy]

to everyone blaming me for "starting fights" -- is it starting a fight to point out that some of us have an advantage that adds up to multiple thousands of dollars a year, and to call for said group to recognize said advantage and use it to uplift those below them, allowing us to build stronger communities and solidarity against our shared oppressors? because that's the idea that's being fought over. I said it snarkily, but that's the idea that's being resisted

[astrophysicist-not-princess]

^^^

I have said it before and I'll say it again. "We're all faggots in the eyes of the state" is meant to discourage actual infighting. Queer people who constantly joke about "Bug & Arson" as if it'll get them brownie points with the "normal people", for example. Or gay people who side with the political right despite being gay. Or people who police identities.

Pointing out that some people in the queer community have privilege is not infighting!! That's just basic intersectionality!! I am begging fellow transmasc people and tme people to be more willing to acknowledge that they have privilege. You can be oppressed and still have some privilege. Shaking you all by the shoulders.

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Certified Intersectionality Post

[wicked-weaver]

At the end of the day, no matter how you phrase it, "cis men aren't oppressed for being cis men so trans men can't be oppressed for being trans men" is the single dumbest bit of theory ever written down

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Intersectionality - Wikipedia

[briannyssey]

the banwaves are exhausting. the banwaves happening against transfems on every social media and digital platform is exhausting. and it's triply immiserating that it's almost entirely just trans women talking about it. we're being driven into smaller and smaller zones of safety in public life, and we're denied the full ability to exist digitally that others are allowed.

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

If we closet ourselves on social media, that's still a win for them. If we all flock to another site that's entirely transfems, that's still a win for them. If we leave the internet because of their behavior and communicate via ham radio or messenger pigeon, that's still a win for them.

Because their goal is our removal from public life. Their goal is to never see our faces, hear our voices, or be reminded we exist. For our eradication to happen in forced silence.

Don't let it happen.

Appeal your ban.

Report the ban to a civil rights org as targeted harassment.

Come back in some form. We want to see you again.

[nekrotiize]

People love to act like Shinigami Eyes is broken when it's actually doing its job as intended, and they just don't like what it has to say.

[nekrotiize]

Perhaps if you get marked red after reblogging post after post after post about how the Transandrophobia Movement is legitimate and not another festering Hate Group, and the Transfems criticizing it are all just big mean bullies who are actually dangerous TERFs who need to get excised from the broader Queer Community, then it is not broken. It is not a false flag, and it is not a mystery as to why you've been marked red. Yes, even if you are Transgender yourself, and yes, even if you do consider supporting the Transandrophobia Movement to be Trans Advocacy.

Your beliefs are explicitly hostile to the women within the Trans community, and they are hostile to you as a Transmasc, whether you want to see that or not. A lot of the defense given by proponents of the Transandrophobia Movement relies directly on calling attention to the Birth Sex of Transgender Men, and constantly - and I mean constantly - delegitimizing the Masculinity and Manhood of Trans Men. If you are a Trans Man who is currently wrapped up in the Transandrophobia Movement - please know that not only is no one saying Trans Men do not face discrimination for being Trans, but your participation in that movement is doing nothing but attempting to further remove Transfems from the community, all while slowly stripping you of your masculinity.

You need to treat yourself and your sisters with more respect. And also to get the hell over yourself - it's difficult to swallow, as a man, that you hold systemic power over women of similar classes to you. It's hard to wrap your brain around the sudden shift from being - or at least, generally perceived as being, depending on your specific relationship with your past identification - one disadvantaged group (Woman, or "Woman"), to being another, different disadvantaged group (Transgender) that sometimes actually holds way more social power than another (within Queer Spaces, Trans Men hold power over Trans Women specifically - a statement entirely trivial to process when one removes the prefix of "Trans"). But, if you're well-meaning and simply are reacting out of fear/confusion, or generally just have reactionary tendencies... You have to speedrun processing this information before you get so absorbed in it you lose the ability to see reason completely: Trans Women Are Not Your Enemy And You Do Not Have To Feminize Yourself To "Make A Point".

[partypuppy-nastja]

I follow 845 blogs here, at present. At least half are of TME bloggers. Many are transmasc. Quite a few are loud about being intersex and/or loudly campaign for intersex rights.

Of all of these bloggers, most are flagged safe on Shinigami Eyes (others are unflagged, none are flagged as unsafe).

I have never yet seen someone "incorrectly flagged" where it was not possible for me, after a few minutes on their blog, to see "Ok, it's because of this transmisogyny here".

So, "Shinigami Eyes hates transmascs" no, you personally were flagged because of your treatment of others. Countless other transmascs are flagged safe.

And "Shinigami Eyes hates intersex people/advocates" no, you personally were flagged because of your treatment of others. Many other intersex people/advocates are flagged safe.

Shinigami Eyes itself also explains that someone merely being trans is not a sufficient criterion to be flagged safe for other trans people. There are, sadly, trans people of all genders who will (and do) throw their trans siblings under the bus in the hopes of being slightly less hated by TERFs and similar reactionary hate groups. As a result, there are trans people of all genders who are correctly marked as unsafe as Shinigami Eyes.

Is Shinigami Eyes perfect? No. Is it open to potential abuse and malicious false-flagging by mass-reports? Yes. So it should never be taken as conclusive. But it is a reason to be wary when someone is marked as unsafe.

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Certified Intersectionality Post.

[stillnaomi]

no, women being uncomfortable when men give them certain types of compliments, which they're fine receiving from women, isn't an example of men being oppressed. it's a reflection of women being used to men sexually harassing us. any man who takes the time to understand even the basics of women's oppression (any man worth knowing) should understand why it's like that and know not to take it personally. it sucks if that personally limits a guy's social options but men getting blowback from men's mass harassment of women isn't men being oppressed lol

[mystery-incorporated-whore]

im having a thought here that i cant fully materialize but want to get out there anyway so hopefully a more read transfeminist can take it and run with it

the way transmascs view the "attention" that transfems get due to hypervisibility is similar to the sentiment cis men often have that "its so easy for a woman to become a [streamer/artist/photographer/other internet personality/etc.] because everyone will flock to her because shes hot"

they both look like a "privilege" to someone that doesnt experience the underlying systemic oppression and dehumanization that makes the phenomenon happen in the first place

[mystery-incorporated-whore]

im sure this kind of phenomenon happens with race, fatness, disability, economic status, and many other marginalizations, but the gender one felt the most appropriate to compare with

[ensignrobin]

I think it feels most appropriate because it's not even really a comparison, it's the same thing. a subset of the same phenomenon. transmisogyny is misogyny!

[sophie-the-dungeon-mistresss]

All of queer history according to every online queer person under the age of 25:

Ancient Greece: everyone is bisexual and something about a lesbian poet. Nothing is evil about the bisexual men and their child soldiers stop questioning it!

Rome: They make everyone straight for a very long time.

The British and French empires: they go around the world and do colonialism, this is bad because they enforce a gender binary around the world and only because of this, why did they do that? To invalidate non binary identities of course don't ask why all of these "third genders" are just trans women stop being silly

1895: Oscar Wilde gets arrested and gay people start existing again

1969: Marsha P Johnson throws a brick at stonewall. This is all she does and this is the only place in the world where it happens. This makes gay people legal everywhere in the only countries that matter.

1980s: AIDS crisis becomes a problem and lesbians save the day somehow we won't explain how important they were just know they were important! and no one ever thinks about AIDS again.

Some time in the 80/90s it doesn't matter: we decided transexual is a bad naughty word and transgender is the cool word. Anyone who says transsexual is a transmedicalist, why is this bad? Because they're mean to people who use neopronouns. no other reason they are bad at all.

2007: a trans woman who is basically a terf lies about trans men. That's all she does in this book there is nothing else you need to know about it.

2011: Lady Gaga releases Born This Way. This ends all homophobia towards gay men and we should never talk about them again their issues are basically solved now.

2018: brave Tumblr user st-dionysus saves trans men from their invisibility by holding those evil trans women accountable

2020: every one decides they are all just gonna be mean to each other :( we shouldn't be fighting and "making people acknowledge privilege" don't do oppression olympics guys we're all fags in the eyes in the state we should just make out instead :(((

Today, 2026 - fascism is on the rise and a genocide organization is literally warning of trans genocide in America which we are currently seeing in the state of Kansas

Somehow this is the fault of you "invalidating" "an AFAB transfem" with a genshin impact profile picture back in a tiktok comment section in 2022

[depressedquetzal]

Just learned about the bunny blog drama going on and read the posts so I’m going to make this clear. I am a trans man. I believe in Transandrophobia because trans men are discriminated against and treated cruelly in part because they are men and intersectionality is a thing. Those fucking idiots who believe all men should die and that trans man are inherently evil for being men can fuck right off of this blog

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Intersectionality - Wikipedia

[a-polite-melody]

“Masculinity is never demonized”

…so you’ve not talked to Black people or read Black activists, or anything, and are really proud to be advertising that? Because that’s all I’m hearing.

[transfem-intersectionality-bot]

Intersectionality - Wikipedia