#subversivism really is so prevalent as serano said in whipping girl ngl

[tboy-trash]

TME/TMA are incredibly useful terms for many reasons, but one is that there is a, somehow, very common type of TME nonbinary person who has decided that since they're not a man they don't benefit from nor enact transmisogyny. i think it's another manifestation of what Julia Serano called "subversivism", or believing that certain nonconventional gendered expressions are superior to "binary" ones, and it's one i've encountered a few times irl in queer spaces. if you simply talk about the privilege transmasculine people hold over transfeminine people sometimes a TME genderfuck butchtwink can decide their punk aesthetic somehow makes them separate from the conversation, whereas "TME" is more explicitly naming the source of the privilege and forcing them to confront it