#tranfemine

[dijjonceline15]

I just wanna stay inside and cuddle all day and get fucked probably 🍆🥵

Telegram:@Dijjoncelline

[janeada]

Is the journal open to afab transfems and other afab TMAs ?

Again, not my journal, I'm not the editor. When I say I've been involved I mean I've helped with some of the web work.

I like the editor though, she's smart, there's gonna be a good vibe, if she picks a submission she'll be picking it because it's good and relevant to transfeminism, trans women and/or the experience of transmisogyny. There's not going to be IDs on the door, it's just a question of who's getting the invite. For clarity, who's getting the invite are "trans women, TMA people, transfems, etc".

If you want to do the work of writing something with something to say for a by-and-for-tma transfeminist publication, worthy of inclusion and submitting it and taking (probably quite light) editorial feedback. That's your prerogative. The work is work and god knows we can use everyone doing it that we can get, if the struggle is really your struggle then maybe you have something to say. If the work is valuable the work is valuable, yk?

However if the work is on this topic, of who-can-be-tma or how-valid-is-an-afab-tgirl, I'd expect it to be politely rejected because it's a tedious entry in a tedious conversation, much like what-is-a-woman or who-is-feminism-for. Say something interesting please, I like the editor and I'd rather she didn't need to wade through the mud.

Submissions welcome!

[sapphic-vibes14]

a poster i made based on a conversation i had with my girlfriend who's trans about the costs of being a woman

[unroxyfication]

mandetoryr tranfeminization forvever and ever basically

[hidden-annoying-tgirl]

it's pretty understandable that Transfems would be upset that one of a handful of transfem is being portrayed in ways that directly contradict canon identity of the character. It's not transmedicalism to be upset from this, as there is no need to be on hormones to be a trans woman, so this is a nonisssue here. I don't think any sensible trans woman would do the same to a transmasculine character. Trans perspectives are rarely shared, and should be cherished through the texts they are conveyed in, as being trans is a core part of many of these characters, with tranfeminity being a deliberate choice to show trans women as humanized people. To take that and change the character to no longer be transfeminine is kinda inherently disrespectful to the stories that the art was trying to tell. To act as if trans women who are upset with this are acting like assholes is transmisogyny. We have very few stories told about us, so the very few that we have are VERY important to us. You're clearly feeling called out for this transmisogynistic behavior. I don't know much about you, but it seems like something that you do. Instead of lashing out at people for critiquing harmful behavior, maybe think about why you're so upset. I s it because trans women are mad at something that you personally do? How about instead of being an asshole to transfems, you work on your behavior that makes it clear you're not an ally to them?

phenomenon that kinda makes me want to kill myself

[taliabhattwrites]

OP, I want to highlight and reinforce your point about transfems not experiencing reproductive exploitation and the violent regendering inherent to being viewed less as a person and more as a reproductive asset. That part is completely true and is the chief way in which the transphobia transfems and and transmascs face is distinct.

However, where this goes completely off the rails in the second half of your post is, frankly ... your apparent belief that trans women don't face misogyny?

I hope you are aware that trans women are rarely treated as credible epistemic authorities on our own bodies. Medical gatekeepers are reluctant to provide us the care we ask for and eager to demand we cease hormone therapy before treating us. Research about trans women's medical needs and outcomes is sparing, and we do have needs particular to having E-dominant systems that are under-served and often overlap with the medical neglect of cis women. Medications and treatments don't affect us how they would affect cis men, and the tranfeminized body is not the median subject of medical research. Finally, doctors do indeed deny us credibility on account of viewing us as either women, or strange gender freaks if they have access details that out us.

We are not treated as "babymakers" or broodmares--that's regendering--but we are degendered, treated as a dehumanized brute or barren woman, a creature fit only for violent sexualization and being discarded. That is the manner in which our oppression is asymmetric to transmasc, but our anatomy does not spare us patriarchal scrutiny! Rather, it condemns us to brutalization and hyperfetishization. It is the core of transfeminine disposability.

That we see ourselves in media largely portrayed as rapacious perverts, cross-dressing deviants, and disposable, abject sex workers whose humanity is utterly elided does not constitute a privilege. These are portrayals of us, not by us, and they are the product of cissexual society's hang-ups about us. They are not authentic portrayals of our lives and stories, and their purpose is to either inspire revulsion or titillation in a largely cis audience. Hyperscrutiny is not more beneficial than invisiblization, and is in fact a core component of our monstering.

Lastly ... "don't get treated as a privileged whiny joke that just needs to shut up and let others talk by their own community." Do I ... actually need to spell this out? Do I actually need to remind you how the refrain of "male socialization", presumed privileges we accrued "as men", or the sin of being "male-bodied" is frequently instrumentalized against us to deny us the ability to speak about our own oppression?

OP ... do you realize that trans women are, in fact, dismissed and belittled and minimized and ignored in a manner that is very much misogynistic? Because we navigate a patriarchal society as women, and a cissexist society that abhors us for rejecting manhood?

This post began so well and seemed poised to elucidate how the transphobia that transmascs and transfems face is distinct but related, but veered off into territory that I can only describe as detached from the reality of transfeminine oppression. I seriously hope you re-evaluate how you approach this topic and your view of transmisogyny, because it is abhorrently incomplete at the moment.

I personally have a lot of privileges over most trans women and fems as someone who isn't typically trans-feminized. When we've walked down the street together, they're the ones who have gotten shouted at from passing cars, not me. I'm not subjected to transmisogyny in my social groups or anything even nearly resembling it. I don't get hypersexualized and fetishized in the same way, am not popularly sensationalized by cis people as a threat to others, I don't fear the same kind of public violence they tend to, don't get the same vitriol and harassment from TERFs, don't have the same worries as to pay and housing and being forced into sex work. Not every other transmasc has the same experiences as me just based on our shared demographic; these are the privileges I personally notice in my life. I generally don't experience transmisogyny.

But this isn't one-sided. Trans women and fems generally do not experience the same kind of medical misogyny I do; don't have to worry about being detransitioned through forced pregnancy; don't get treated as too stupid to know what they're doing with their bodies; aren't treated as ruining valuable property, as needing to be beaten down into their proper submission as babymakers; don't grapple with the painful invisibility of never seeing themselves in media, history, research, etc.; and don't get treated as a privileged whiny joke that just needs to shut up and let others talk by their own community. They generally don't experience transandrophobia. Is it really fair to say one of these experiences is worse than the other? Or that either group has gendered power under patriarchy? I think not.

[heldoll]

Ok literally over half my for you is trans porn and I haven't interacted with any. I heard Tumblr was bad about treating all tranfemine content as sexual but this is ridiculous

Hate how if I start interacting with trans content on most platforms my for you page gets flooded with chaserbait softcore porn

[pleuvoire]

it's not that there aren't certain topics that get baselessly called terf rhetoric a lot more than others (for example, transandrophobia guys are constantly implying it's terfy to criticize them or talk about tranfeminism) but when people are just really vague about how their talking about "feminism" or "lesbianism" or something like that has gotten them, specifically, falsely accused of being a terf, you should look into it deeper. like ok and what sort of rhetoric do you use when talking about feminism and lesbianism. and what sort of rhetoric do you use when talking about trans women

if someone is ever like "i've been endlessly called a terf just for talking about feminism/lesbianism/something of the sort! even though that's NOT true and i love trans women! this just goes to show how much people hate feminism/lesbianism/etc that they would falsely accuse me of this horrible thing just for talking about feminism/lesbianism/etc!" you should immediately take it with a huge grain of salt