On Transmisogyny

freedominwickedness:

It is a complete red herring for AFAB trans* people to claim that they’ve been called “tr***y” or “sh*****e”, because no one has ever seriously argued that AFAB trans* people are never, ever called these things. The argument is that the use of these terms against AFABs is incidental, whereas the use of these terms against AMAB trans* people is pervasive, systemic, and violent.

It is long past time that AFAB trans* people sat down and acknowledged that they are simply not subjected to anything which even remotely resembles the treatment of AMAB trans* people in Western society. Look at the numbers — even the most generally privileged AMABs (white, binary, passable) are murdered much more often than the least generally privileged AFABs (POC, nonbinary, nonpassing), and it’s flat out open season on the lives of less privileged AMABs.

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    Word. Using the t-word is the fastest way to get me to unfollow you and think you’re a piece of shit.
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    Ah, okay. Thank you for clearing that up! It makes more sense to me now.
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    Yes, indeed.
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    It means that AFAB trans* people do get called these things every once in a while, whereas AMAB trans* people get called...
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