#understanding of transfeminism that will help you to engage with the opinions of transfems you may encounter in the wild!

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if we want to name and refer to sex-based patterns of oppression, we do need conceptual differentiation, but this need not be based on identities. Feminism ought to focus on the lived realities of people, and should particularly include those outside of the Western countries where most of the gender-critical vs transfeminist debate takes place. If we take a closer look at these other contexts, we will be able to see how normative ways of “being a man” or “being a woman” affect everyone, but that trans people are disproportionately targeted in some scenarios, just as mixed-race people, elderly women or girls are in others. Paying attention to these diverse forms of life does not mean that feminism has to split up into a plethora of “priorities” until it breaks apart. It does mean that feminism must work within itself and with other social and political movements in a conjoined effort to achieve more complete, better-informed, long-term results in freedoms and rights.

-"Transfeminism and Political Forms of Life," by Martha Alicia Trevino-Tarango [link]