#this isn't olympic oppresion

[witchytakes]

That didn't nulify the oppresion trans women face What about trans women who are stealth about being trans and pass well as a cis woman, she would face some kind of misogny even if she wasn't perceived as trans

We can point out how the reproductive and genital oppresion comes to cis women and trans men in plenty of country but we can't ignore about the trans women facing violence

they wouldn't face the same reproductive oppresion but would suffer the other ones, specially among those who are stealth about being trans, those who transitioned earlier and are also stealth, those who pass, those who are just living their own lives

"but they see that as a validation" if some of them feel more valid about that, this is a problem about their own fucking mind, they should seek a therapist, it's more made into trauma just like trans women can't relate to some oppresion cis women does, the same can said for trans women like cis women aren't constantly deadnamed (because they didn't have a deadname) and being treated as different and imposed as their assigned sex in home, and this is why it comes to the validation from misogny thing, when a rando treats her badly and she feels a little better for this, this says more about the context, like the whole trans experience that cis people would never face

when cis women are misgendered we didn't say shit like "hahaha this is laughable they don't know what is really a trans experience, you don't know how is to be misgendered and deadnamed you shouldn't call your violence misgendering because you're not trans" I don't see any trans people talking like that, they are mostly aware that some cis women are misgendered and affected by this, and they know that's something that commonly hits them, and have empathy for these misgendering cis women

Belittle a oppresion for another does nothing

"but it's sexism not misogny" I read also this argument and I should say something, saying that misgony should be related to biology is biological essentialist and we are social animals, misogny is social and a social problem, animals aren't misogynist to another, they didn't treat females of their own species based on anything rather than their own instincts Are we seriosly using this biologic essentialist view to a social problem? Social problems aren't related to biology? Where's the misogny gene males have? Where's the misogny instinct? There's nothing

Misogny is a social oppresion, and could be based on reproductive system and organs, but also on how society treats women, on the social level, you can't link misogny to only a biological oppresion because the origin for misogny didn't come from any gene or shit, it comes from society

Social

It's important to remind

Social, people, we are humans

As a woman from a muslim family with a waziri pashtun father that prohibited me from appearing on windows, going out on the garden and going to male doctors even when I was on the verge of dying, hearing that trans women experience misogyny and cultural/religious oppression always makes me laugh.

[transunity]

Cropped OOPs username out because I don't want any hate sent their way. But this is an example of what is meant by "some trans women turn their oppression into a competition, which is unhelpful and harmful to other LGBTQ+ minorities".

Aphobia is systemic and impact on relations of power is not the only deciding factor on what is systemic. When powerful institutions like the church do not recognise asexuality because it does not (necessarily) lead to procreation, that is part of a larger arm of systemic control over LGBTQ+ people. Homophobia, Transphobia and Aphobia are all arms of the same mechanism that seeks to uphold and protect societal control over reproduction. Those who deviate from the cishet model are seen as a problem and thus are targeted systematically. This includes those on the A Spectrum.

But more to the point: we need better solidarity between all kinds of queer folk facing queerphobia. OOP's take is antithetical to solidarity and unity. But its not an uncommon opinion to see bandied about. This is just one example of it. Creating an oppression Olympics where Transmisogyny is the only oppression that matters alienates other LGBTQ+ minorities. Aphobia is just as important to fight as transmisogyny. If OOP had compared other oppresions, the flaws would be immediately apparent. E.g. if they suggested homophobia was more important to fight than lesbophobia, that would be unacceptable- because surely both deserve to be fought?

This blog exists to promote unity between those experiencing the three arms of transphobia mainly. Transmisogyny is one of three kinds of transphobia. It isn't the *only* kind of transphobia nor is it the only kind of queer oppression.

To those who work with transmisogyny theory- be mindful of this. If you are actively minimising other people's oppression in order to make yours seem the most dire. Who are you hurting by doing that? And is it actually helping your cause or just alienating others?

Can you commit to including other trans perspectives in your work to fight transphobia?