#my dni list is a mess to begin with because every other month social media spawns a new specific terminally online curse

[opossumprince]

I'm incredibly confused about your DNI list lumping t4t in with proship, MAPs and zoos. I'm not familiar with c4t, but a quick google search turns up wayyy too many confusing definitions, so I'll disregard that. The common definition (that i'm aware of) for t4t is Trans for Trans. as in a trans couple. is there another context that you've come by for this phrase?

Alright so first of all I get what you mean, my intention wasn't to lump in things that can stem from confusion with deeply viIe shit, maybe I should separate or move the latter category up (but also my dni Iist includes "those who think reaI art absolutely requires a lone genius physically painting or scuIpting figurative shit" so I obviously don't think all items on the Iist are comparable to "cartography enthusiasts" and such)

My problem with "t4t" and its spread in onIine communities is :

The belief that dating other trans people exclusively will keep you from or significantly reduce the risk of harm, transphobia, and other bigotry - which is obviously wrong since trans people aren't a monolith and incredibly different from one another to the point where we can't even call "t4t" endogamy (dating within one's specific social group), and internalised transphobia or transphobia towards other kinds of trans people is still very much a thing.

The idea that it also makes you a Better Activist since it will show how much you "resist assimiIation", etc. This is counterproductive, performative (not in the Butlerian sense), and actually rooted in r^dfem ideaIs such as "poIiticaI Iesbianism" and "Iesbian separatism", only applied to trans people instead of Iesbians. Weird, right ? Not like there's been a surge of regurgitated r^dfem ideas in trans onIine communities lately or anything.

The claim that "t4t" is a sexuaI orientation. "T4t fIags", "t4t" in bio, and such. Preference or choice isn't sexuaI orientation, duh - unless you think being trans is a gender in itself, which is quite frankly terrible. "C4t" and "t4c" are derivatives of "t4t" that mean exactly what you think, except now instead of calling them chasers we cheer them on for "Ioving trans peopIe". Why ?

The fact that there's a semantic drift where a trans person dating another automatically gets called "t4t", that even trans characters dating get called "t4t", and so on. This is visible in your ask : "trans for trans, as in a trans coupIe". Not all members of trans couples excIusively date other trans people. This is as absurd as calling each Iesbian pairing "Iesbian separatists".