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envolvenuances · 5 months ago

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as the masculine woman who wasn't allowed to use the girl's bathroom in school and to this day have straight women prefer to stand than sit next to me at the bus or question if it's "appropriate" to have me in school staff teaching teenagers. the only "gaslighting" in this is the pretense that it is either a new phenomena or increasing because of The Trans Question being divisive in current gringo politics. when it's classic lesbophobia that always existed and honestly if you ask me things have been improving. but then I do feel like transphobia itself is a restriction of homo/lesbophobia against the mostly visibly gender non conforming of us.

#straight women hate lesbians and bisexual women #sometimes straight women who are a bit of tomboys are also targeted by it #poor women are typically more likely to be masculinized in these manners because we are already seen as dangerous and capable of doing hard #work or taking abuse. sometimes this class aspect gets conflated with specific racial and ethnic groups #to the point where honestly I call most of the mistrust other women have against me 'lesbophobia' but it is likely some comes from me still #having a clearly class marked accent and fashion sense. and the fact I call myself a white mestiza but everyone can tell I have black blood #and that's a problem in itself #like this is all such basic lessons on the world and oppression I learnt this shit at 6 when I first got beat up for being too masculine #why are we pretending it's 'complicated'?#your privilege makes you biased against minority women. I don't know if based on class race or sexuality but fix your shit #women bring scared of me never made me a man #but this is also why I do have a lot of sympathy for trans men and can understand and accept if that's the path they choose #for me it was always straight women who were traitors...#.txt

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