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You can decide that all trans women must truly then be horrible and dangerous monsters

Or you can understand that that's how transmisogyny works, and that these acusations are false and overblown, for the purpose of harming trans women

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This response is so crazy because of how blatantly, openly hateful to trans women it is. the replier went on to immediately vaguepost about how trans women shouldn’t whine about the ways in which we’re oppressed. The post is framed as if it’s in response to Capnsoapy has said that trans women are the most oppressed trans people, but OP never said anything like that (even though she would be well within her rights to do that) — all she did was point out specific ways that trans women are targeted by transmisogyny and how that affects us.

This replier has revealed the smoking gun of anti-transfeminism discourse: even when transfems are speaking exclusively about our own experiences, with no comparison to anybody else’s, just mentioning the ways in which we are oppressed & marginalised is enough to be treated as an insidious transphobic force separating the community

All OP did was point out that trans women are scrutinised higher than TME people when it comes to sexual impropriety and that we are caricatured more often than represented in fiction. That’s it. Those two statements should be uncontroversial to anybody even slightly aware of the concept of transmisogyny.

So then why are trans women even mentioning our own oppression nigh-universally treated as nasty self-centred separatists? Why is it acceptable for people to literally misgender us whilst dismissing our oppression in the same breath as outright saying that discussing the ways in which trans women are oppressed is pointless & doesn’t help anybody? How do you all not see that as blatant, open hatred of trans women — you know, real trans women, who actually live in the real world, not the imaginary ones who never complain that TME people hypothetically support in their head?

As a white person raised in a white supremacist society, you’re gonna fuck up sometimes. That’s just a fact. But racialized people often aren’t able/comfortable speaking up when y’all do some shit because of the power imbalance/not feeling up to educating when you may be resistant/don’t think the “fight” will be Worth It.

Show initiative without making it A Struggle or playing the white guilt card. Show you actually care about them, their struggles, and the way you interact with them BEFORE they have to have a bigger Conversation with you, beyond when they need to yell about someone else being racist.

Even close friends or partners are not necessarily safe. I have had partners dismiss accusations of racism just off hand, I have had partners treat me like a repository for knowledge on Muslim cultural practices despite the fact that *my family has been Christian since Jesus,* hell I have had a partner say I was overplaying my pain at the genocide to get sympathy.

IF YOU ARE WHITE YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP OR YOU ARE JUST PUTTING MORE LABOR AND DANGER ON YOUR RACIALIZED FRIENDS FOR YOUR FUCKING COMFORT

*Not in those exact words, they actually just said they found what I said "vis trans and Marxism really interesting" and they're "very into Marxism and phenomenology of identity at the moment", but y'know if I can steer them into actual transfeminism that would be good

hi!! yes ive been working on this for a bit. unfortunately as ive said its tricky and resources are sparse but ive got a lot more than when i first set out on this. im writing some stuff of my own to add to it and compile a lot of feminist and marxist texts through a transfeminist perspective but that wont be ready for some time, so for now heres some stuff i can recommend. for explicitly marxist transfeminism, the main place id point is evalyn penrose.

another work ive been recommended on is marxism and transgender liberation, which should be particularly revelant to your context, though i still need to read it myself

I can also recommend some critiques of dominant feminism's and where they go wrong, Angela Davis' Women Race and Class is one of my favorites, if you're not familiar she was a member of the Black Panther Party, which should give you an idea of her perspective. there is also Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis, she is not a marxist but is a believe a transfem anarchist, so slightly off but still critiques a lot of these issues from a transfeminist perspective. There is also Philosophical Trends of the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy, a maoist organizer in India. She critiques both radical feminism and terfs, as well as liberal feminisms and even some errors of socialist feminists.

If you want marxist feminism more generally, Sankaras speeches and most of Kollontais writings are good (Social basis of the womens question, etc), but for transfeminism specifically much of it is still in the realm of liberalism (something I am trying to fix), so not much will replace some of the basic foundations yet, like Serano and Crenshaw. Jules Gil-Peterson professes to marxism, but honestly i wasn't a huge fan of A short history of transmisogyny. It may still be worth the read but it requires some scrutiny in my view, in some ways its actually rather anti-transfeminist. I've not read histories of the transgender child but it might be worth looking into further, I'll probably get to it eventually. Similarly Ive heard mixed reviews on Transgender Marxism but given the name its worth noting at the very least.

Bhatt has her own host of problems but I do think The Third Sex is worth a read for people unfamiliar with transfeminism to familiarize themselves with how transmisogyny is often laundered through the language of decolonial feminism.

I can get you links to all of this if you need, just let me know. Serano has whipping girl of course but also a few good articles on her blog, Crenshaw has plenty of writings but the main ones I tend to reference are Demarginalizing the intersection and Mapping the Margins. other short resources that are helpful are Girls you can hit by the part for reclamation and survival, as well as hot allostatic load and the abusers guide if you're wanting to familiarize anyone with how callout posts are often leveraged against transfems in particular. you can also sometimes connect this with Davis' and Crenshaw's writings about sexual purity being weaponized against minorities, if deeper analysis is up for discussion.

I know not all of this is exactly what you've asked for but I was just making a new list earlier and I figured I might as well be somewhat more exhaustive here so I can share this as a more current list of writings on transfeminism which I'd recommend.

I will probably update this more in the future and people are welcome to send me their recommendations, i know theres a lot of smaller writers working on the topic and I'm happy to check those out as relevant. This is just most of where I'm at so far.