#not like the standards for trans women callouts are too much higher now but still

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its actually so nice seeing other trans women complain about the tumblr lesbian culture of transmisogyny on here back then like 2016ish shit. like ultimately i was more busy with the insanity of finishing high school life but in the background tumblr was like the only site i used and i took feminism and lesbianism really seriously and wanted to engage with them but the atmosphere was tranfem-hostile so often on here and nobody cared. like i remember how so many people followed and would reblog from known barely even crypto terf types and be like “yeah their politics suck but the feminism is important we still have to talk about male privilege etc etc males are evil pornsickness”.

so many transfems desperately craved validation and a lot of those people weaponized that by tokenizing them in exchange for their agreement with insane shit. “no no, im not being transphobic, these complaints calling so and so a pedophile for reblogging anime are actually coming from my trans women mutuals im just boosting their voice!!” shit was fucking vile man so much awful shit and harassment and othering got sent at unlucky trans women it was just really gross. people making examples of other people left and right. dont get me started on the genital preference discourse either