Kashmira Qeel

"i hate women... including trans women!" -> crowd laughs and claps and giggles, the speaker receives an ally of the year award

"I hate men... including trans men!" -> okay listen here buddy pal dude guy man male xy chromosome brother in christ

She can’t fathom that when I’m cooking or working out, being skinny never crosses my mind as a goal. It’s genuinely crazy to her that being thin isn’t my biggest dream in life

Like. You say "maybe patients shouldn't have to put their hand in the pain box from Dune" and people go "but we should be careful". Okay. The pain box from Dune is unrelated to being careful.

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"Have you considered that this radical activism is alienating moderate supporters?"

Therefore, let's ban children from traveling by car and require all cars to have a scanner on the door that scans the government ID of everyone who gets in the car to make sure no kids are in there. After all, kids get hurt in car accidents all the time! We need to ban this right away!

Maybe if that panel actually had a trans women of color on it someone would have told those guys what bunk their speculations on trans lesbians were. But instead we got "heterosexual transvestites got to keep their male privilege while male attracted street queens lived actual transfeminine lives."

of course men can be feminine (and lots of them should try doing that more honestly) but the way people try so hard to erase every instance of trans women existing in favor of "just being a femboy" to the point of violence combined with the recycling... suggests a whole second thing is going on

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

And finally, while this may be a slightly weaker argument, I find that Miku's prevalence in internet culture (and Her impact generally) to be similar to the impact trans women have on the zeitgeist, while still being disregarded and written off as "weird weeb pedo shit" by large swathes of people, especially reactionaries and others who view all anime women with a distinctly transmisogynist lens.

So even if it's "technically okay" people who refuse to acknowledge transfem characters are and will for the foreseeable future just be attempting trans erasure in media. like people COME THE FUCK ON "it's not that important, it's just a character" LIKE FUCK IT ISN'T That is the first actually REAL depiction of a trans woman I have *ever* seen the first time a transfem was allowed to be messy and complicated on screen and you people are desperate to degender her, to make her anything but a woman just like most people do in real life. If you can't even acknowledge fictional transfems, I do not trust you'll respect real ones

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