so how much more do trans women need to show you about what we go through before you stop rolling your eyes when we say we face misogyny
we face misogynistic patterns of abuse, discrimination, and oppression, intertwined with and amplified by transphobia. and then, beaten down, when we seek community with others who face these things, we are laughed off as the jokes we've always been told we are
pale imitations of womanhood
when we are raped, it is a pale imitation of real rape
when we are abused by our partners, it is a pale imitation of real domestic abuse
when we are punished for our failures to meet patriarchal standards of womanhood, it's a pale imitation of the same thing happening to cis women
when we grieve our inability to give birth, it is a pale imitation of the grief of cis women who cannot give birth
when we face violence and murder at incredibly high rates, when we are threatened and catcalled and harassed by men in public, our fear is a pale imitation of that of cis women
when we are paid the lowest wages of any gender demographic, it is a pale imitation of the smaller wage gap faced by cis women
our suffering is a pale imitation of real suffering
what jokes we are
to be vulnerable for a second. it's painful. I want it to be ok but it isn't ok. I hope things start to get better if we keep working to make them better. I want my sisters to be ok
I want my sisters to be ok
This is transfeminism!
